1936 in architecture

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The year 1936 in architecture involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Buildings
2 Awards
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 References

Buildings

Johnson Wax Headquarters designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Obelisk of Buenos Aires designed by Alberto Prebisch.
Florin Court, London, by Guy Morgan and Partners.
Vytautas the Great War Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania completed.
Berlin Olympic Stadium, designed by Werner March, opened.
'Beehive' terminal at Gatwick Airport, England, designed by Frank Hoar of Hoar, Marlow & Lovett, opened.^[1]^[2]^[3]
British General Post Office K6 'Jubilee' red telephone box, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, introduced.^[4]

Awards

Olympic gold medal - Hermann Kutschera of Austria for Skistadium.
Olympic silver medal - Werner March of Germany for National sports field.
Olympic bronze medal - Hermann Stieglholzer and Herbert Kastinger of Austria for Fighting site in Vienna.
Royal Gold Medal - Charles Henry Holden.
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

March 17 - Juha Leiviskä
July 25 - Glenn Murcutt
October 4 - Christopher Alexander

Deaths

Luigi Manini (born 1848)

References

^ "Gatwick's send-off". Flight. 11 June 1936. pp. 616–19. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1936/1936%20-%201511.html. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
^ "Modern Airport – Features of Gatwick, London's Latest Terminal: Rational Building Layout: Ground and Air Traffic Control: Ancillary Services". Flight. 4 June 1936. pp. 602–4. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1936/1936%20-%201475.html. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
^ King, John. "Gatwick's Beehive: a forgotten development". The Thirties Society Journal 2: 25–8.
^ Johannessen, Neil (1994). Telephone Boxes. Princes Risborough: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-7478-0250-5.