1910 in architecture
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The year 1910 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- April 27 - Futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issues the manifesto Contro Venezia passatista ("Against Past-loving Venice") in the Piazza San Marco.
- Mary Colter is appointed full-time architect for the Fred Harvey Company in the United States.
Buildings opened
- May 11 - Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C., designed by Paul Philippe Cret and Albert Kelsey.
- June - Abdulla Shaig Puppet Theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan.
- November 27 - Pennsylvania Station (New York City), designed by McKim, Mead and White.
Buildings completed
- The Renauld Bank in Nancy, designed by Émile André and Paul Charbonnier.
- The Ducret Apartment Building in Nancy, designed by André and Charbonnier.
- Casa Milà in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí.
- Goldman & Salatsch Building (the "Looshaus"), Michaelerplatz, Vienna, designed by Adolf Loos.
- Steiner House in Vienna, designed by Adolf Loos.
- Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.
- Birmingham Oratory in Birmingham, UK, designed by Edward Doran Webb.[1]
- Jacir Palace Hotel in Bethlehem.
- Gereonshaus in Cologne, designed by Carl Moritz.
- National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, designed by Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen.[2]
- Pilgrim Monument, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.[3]
Awards
- Royal Gold Medal - Thomas Graham Jackson.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Fernand Janin.
Births
- May 23 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect, interior designer, artist, influential writer and broadcaster (died 1999)
- June 26 - Maciej Nowicki, Polish architect, chief architect of the new Indian city of Chandigarh (died 1950)
- July 2 - Richard Sheppard, English architect specializing in educational buildings (died 1982)
- August 12 - Eliot Noyes, American architect and industrial designer (died 1977)
- August 20 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish American architect and industrial designer (died 1961), son of Eliel Saarinen
Deaths
- March 13 - Sir Thomas Drew, Irish architect (born 1838)
- May 14 - Gaetano Koch, Italian architect active in Rome (born 1849)
- August 24 - Juste Lisch, French architect (born 1828)
References
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus. The Buildings of England: Warwickshire.
- ^ "History of the National Museum". National Board of Antiquities.
- ^ Carpenter, Edmund J. (1911). The Pilgrims and their Monument. Cambridge, MA: Privately printed. p. 265.