1944 in architecture

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The year 1944 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• 10050 Cielo Drive (site of the Manson murders in 1969) is built.
• The temporary wooden Jicwood bungalow is designed by Richard Sheppard in England.

Patrick Abercrombie

Events

• The Greater London Plan and A Plan for Plymouth are published by Patrick Abercrombie.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Louis Sullivan.
• Royal Gold Medal - Edward Maufe.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Claude Béraud.

Births

• January 9 - Massimiliano Fuksas, Italian architect
• January 19 - Thom Mayne, American architect
• January 25 - Bernard Tschumi, Swiss-born architect
• April 6 - Peter Murray, English architectural journalist
• April 24 - Maarja Nummert, Estonian architect
• July 15 - Stephen A. Lesser, American architect
• August 19 - Adrian Smith, American architect
• September 27 - Jan Utzon, Danish architect
• November 17 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
• December 23 - Samuel Mockbee, American architect (died 2001)
• Bryan Avery, English architect
• Dick Clark, American architect
• Spencer de Grey, English architect
• David Miller, American architect
• Rafael Viñoly - Uruguayan architect

Deaths

• January 1 - Sir Edwin Lutyens, English architect (born 1869)
• March 8 - Rudolf Wels, Czech architect, killed in Auschwitz concentration camp (born 1882)
• April 10 - Henry Price, English architect working in Manchester (born 1867)
• May 8 - Alexander Beer, German architect, died in Theresienstadt concentration camp (born 1873)
• May 26 - Walter Brugmann, Nazi German architect, died in aircraft crash (born 1887)
• October 23 - Wilson Eyre, American architect (born 1858)
• November 12 - Samuel Charles Brittingham, Australian architect (born 1860)
• December 4 - Benjamin Wistar Morris, American architect (born 1870)
• December 25 - Henry Budden, Australian architect (born 1871)
• Harry Little, American architect
• Watson Elkinah Reid, Canadian architect (born 1858)
• Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect (born 1878)