1897 in architecture

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The year 1897 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• May 1 - Tennessee Centennial Exposition opens in Nashville, with a temporary pyramid for Memphis, TN and a copy of the Parthenon, which will be rebuilt of permanent materials in the 1920s.
• The Vienna Secession Building, designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich is completed.
• Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is begun.
• The Flatiron Building of Atlanta, Georgia, United States is completed, five years before New York's more famous structure.
• Battenberg Mausoleum, Sofia, is completed.
• The Teatro Massimo was built in Palermo, the largest opera theatre in Italy, third in Europe.
• The Weaver building, a mill at Swansea, becomes the first building in the UK to be constructed from reinforced concrete, by L. G. Mouchel to Hennebique patents.

Events

• Vienna Secession group founded by Otto Wagner, Joseph Maria Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann among others.

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Pierre Cuypers.

Births

• January 23 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (died 2000)
• April 18 - Charles N. Agree (died 1982)