1933 in architecture

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The year 1933 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• Completion of the Myer Emporium renovation, on Bourke Street, Melbourne.
• The Round House, designed by Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton Architectural Group to house gorillas at London Zoo, one of the first modernist buildings in Britain.
• Battersea Power Station in London, with Giles Gilbert Scott as consultant architect, begins operation.
• Royal Masonic Hospital (later Ravenscourt Park Hospital) at Ravenscourt Park in London, by Thomas S. Tait of Sir John Burnet, Tait and Lorne, opened.
• Villa Markelius in Stockholm, designed by Sven Markelius for himself.

Events

• The Bauhaus school in Berlin is permanently closed by the Nazi government.
• Modern Architectural Research Group (MARS Group) established as a think tank by younger architects and critics involved in the modernist movement in Great Britain.
• Completion of restoration of Herstmonceux Castle in England by Walter Godfrey.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Ragnar Östberg.
• Royal Gold Medal - Charles Reed Peers.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Publications

• John Betjeman - Ghastly Good Taste, or the depressing story of the rise and fall of British architecture.
• The Information Book of Sir John Burnet, Tait & Lorne.

Births

• June 25 - Álvaro Siza Vieira
• July 23 - Richard Rogers

Deaths

• March 10 - Émile André (born 1871)
• August 8 - Adolf Loos (born 1870)