1920 in architecture

The year 1920 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

• Construction of Welwyn Garden City in England begins with Louis de Soissons as architect and town planner.
• Edith Hughes establishes her own architectural practice, in Glasgow, the first British woman to do so.
• In the first issue of the Purist art magazine L’ Esprit Nouveau co-founded by him, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris adopts the pseudonym Le Corbusier.

The Cenotaph, Whitehall, 11 November 1920

Buildings opened

• November 11 - The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London, designed by Edwin Lutyens.^[1]

Buildings completed

• Ajuria Enea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, designed by Alfredo Baeschlin.
• Coliseum Theatre (Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia.
• Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Canada.
• Oak Tower, Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
• Oslo Synagogue, Norway.
• Teatro Municipal (Lima), Peru.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Egerton Swartwout
• Olympic silver medal - Holger Sinding-Larsen of Norway for Project for a gymnastics school (no other medals awarded)
• Royal Gold Medal - Charles Louis Girault
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Michel Roux-Spitz

Manitoba Legislative Building

Births

• January 23 - Gottfried Böhm, German architect
• July 16 - Peter Yates, English architect (died 1982)
• September 2 - Romaldo Giurgola, Italian-American-Australian academic architect, professor and author
• December 28 - Bruce McCarty, American architect

Deaths

• March 12 - Hermann Eggert, German architect (born 1888)
• May 17 - Jean-Louis Pascal, academic French architect (born 1837)
• May 18 - Frank Matcham, English theatrical architect and designer (born 1854)
• July 31 - Thomas Tryon, American architect (born 1859)
• October 22 - Ruggero Berlam, Italian architect (born 1854)

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