1924 in architecture

none 1924 architecture The year 1924 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events May – Royal Fine Art Commission appointed to advise the government of the United Kingdom on matters concerning the built environment. Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici begin work on their vacation home E-1027 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France Buildings and structures thumb|Chilehaus in Hamburg, Germany thumb|Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht, Netherlands Buildings completed The Chilehaus in Hamburg, Germany, designed by Johann Friedrich Höger. Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht, Netherlands, designed by Gerrit Rietveld. Copenhagen Police Headquarters in Denmark, designed by Hack Kampmann (died 1920). Midland Bank headquarters in the City of London, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building on Manhattan, designed by York and Sawyer. American Radiator Building on Manhattan, designed by John Mead Howells, Raymond Hood and J. André Fouilhoux. Queen Mary's Dolls' House in England, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Church Rate Corner (private house) in Cambridge, England designed by Baillie Scott.The Twentieth Century Society The Twentieth Century Society 100 Houses 100 Years London Batsford 2017 978-1-84994-437-3 1924 Awards Olympic silver medal – Alfréd Hajós & Dezso Lauber of Hungary for Plan for Budapest Swimming Stadium. Olympic bronze medal – Julien Médecin of Monaco for Stadium for Monte Carlo (no gold medal was awarded). Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Marcel Péchin. Births February 29 – Agustín Hernández Navarro, Mexican architect and sculptor (died 2022)Margarita Tortajada Quiroz: Amalia Hernández: audacia y fuerza creativa (Spanish) March 23 – John Madin, English architect (died 2012) June 14 – Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect (died 2009)https://theprovince.com/architect+Arthur+Erickson+dead/1614087/story.html Mercer, Katie; Chan, Cheryl. "B.C. architect Arthur Erickson dead at 84," The Province (Vancouver), Thursday, May 21, 2009. 2014-06-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20100624235457/http://www.theprovince.com/architect+Arthur+Erickson+dead/1614087/story.html 2010-06-24 dead August 14 – Sverre Fehn, award-winning Norwegian architect (died 2009)Norwegian architect, Sverre Fehn, dies at 84 http://www.norway.org/ARCHIVE/culture/architecture/sverre_fehn/ Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway) 4 March 2009 25 April 2013 August 16 – Philip Dowson, South African-born British architect (died 2014) December 4 – John C. Portman Jr., American architect and developer (died 2017) Deaths April 14 – Louis Sullivan, American architect sometimes called the "father of skyscrapers"Kaufman, Mervyn D. (1969). Father of Skyscrapers: A Biography of Louis Sullivan. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. and "father of modernism"Sullivan, Louis Henry Chambers Biographical Dictionary Chambers Harrap 2007 https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/chambbd/sullivan_louis_henry/0.pdf 2023-05-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20230529194233/https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/chambbd/sullivan_louis_henry/0.pdf dead London, UK 9 9780550106933 Bakewell, Joan Credo Reference subscription (born 1856) April 23 – Bertram Goodhue, American neo-gothic architect (born 1869)Oliver, Richard (1983). Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press for the Architectural History Foundation. xii + 297 pp.; 146 illustrations, bibliography, index. 978-0-262-15024-8 April 24 – Ferdinand Arnodin, French bridge engineer (born 1845) August 11 – Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect (born 1841) November 7 – Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, English architect active in Oxford (born 1835) References