1910 in architecture

none 1910 architecture The year 1910 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events January 21 – Architect Adolf Loos delivers the lecture Ornament and Crime in Vienna. 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 and structures thumb|Casa Milà in Barcelona, Spain thumb|Steiner House, completed in 1910 Buildings opened January 22 – Flinders Street railway station in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Fawcett and Ashworth. February – Birmingham Oratory in Birmingham, England, designed by Edward Doran Webb.The Buildings of England: Warwickshire 1986 https://archive.org/details/bestbuildingsofe0000pevs registration Nikolaus Pevsner Nikolaus Pevsner 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. July 31 – Split Rock Lighthouse, Minnesota, designed by Ralph Russell Tinkham. August 5 – Pilgrim Monument, Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Willard T. Sears.Carpenter Edmund J. The Pilgrims and their Monument https://archive.org/details/cu31924028816664 Cambridge, Massachusetts Privately printed 1911 265 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. Jacir Palace Hotel in Bethlehem. Gereonshaus de Gereonshaus in Cologne, designed by Carl Moritz. National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, designed by Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen.http://www.nba.fi/en/nationalmuseum/history_of_museum_and_building National Board of Antiquities History of the National Museum Liberty Tower (Manhattan) in New York, designed by Henry Ives Cobb. Giesshübel warehouse in Zürich, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart. St John the Baptist Cathedral, Norwich, England, to the 1882 design of George Gilbert Scott Jr. Awards RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Thomas Graham Jackson. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Fernand Janin fr 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 7 – Lucien Hervé, Hungarian-born architectural photographer (died 2007) 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 thumb|upright|Sir Thomas Drew, died 13 March 1910 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