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1923 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1923 in architecture
The year 1923 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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- Vers une architecture by Le Corbusier (later translated into English as Towards a New Architecture) is published.
- Bauhaus expressionist architecture phase ends.
- Liebenberg and Kaplan architectural practice established in Minneapolis.
Buildings opened
- June 23 – Stockholm City Hall, designed by Ragnar Östberg.
- December 26 – Ottawa Auditorium, Canada[1] (demolished 1967).
Buildings completed
- Coedfa (residence), The Close, Llanfairfechan, North Wales, designed by Herbert Luck North.[2]
- Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Église Notre-Dame du Raincy in France, designed by Auguste Perret.
- Pershing Square Building in New York, New York, designed by Sloan & Robertson and York and Sawyer.
- AIA Gold Medal – Henry Bacon
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John James Burnet
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Baptiste Mathon
- March 2 – Sam Scorer, English architect (died 2003)
- June 5 – Yona Friedman, Hungarian born French architect and architectural theorist ("mobile architecture") (died 2020)
- June 24 – Peter Womersley, British architect (died 1993)
- June 25 – Harry Seidler, Austrian-born Australian Modernist architect[3] (died 2006)
- September 18 – Peter Smithson, English New Brutalist architect, husband and partner of Alison Smithson[4] (died 2003)
- September 25 – Leonardo Benevolo, Italian historian of modern architecture (died 2017)
- December 12 – Richard Gilbert Scott, English architect (died 2017)
- December 19 – Alexander Cvijanović, Yugoslav/American architect (died 2019)
- December 25 – Jack Zunz, South African-born structural engineer (died 2018)
- Eulie Chowdhury, Indian architect (died 1995)
- May 19 – Frank Darling, Canadian architect and promoter of the Beaux-Arts style (born 1850)
- October 25 – Robert S. Roeschlaub, Colorado architect (born 1843)
- November 24 – Michel de Klerk, Dutch Amsterdam School architect (born 1884)
- December 27 – Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer and architect (born 1832)
- Robinson, Dean (1982). Howie Morenz: Hockey's First Superstar. Boston Mills Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-919822-69-X.
- Twentieth Century Society (2017). 100 Houses 100 Years. London: Batsford. ISBN 978-1-84994-437-3.
- 0Blake, Peter (1973). Architecture for the New World: The Work of Harry Seidler. Sydney. ISBN 3-7828-1459-2.
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