1919 in architecture
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The year 1919 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

  • Grosses Schauspielhaus by Hans Poelzig
    Hans Poelzig
    Hans Poelzig was a German architect, painter and set designer.-Life:Poelzig was born in Berlin in 1869 to the countess Clara Henrietta Maria Poelzig while she was married to George Acland Ames, an Englishman...

     opened in Berlin
  • McMahon Building, better known as the World's littlest skyscraper
    World's littlest skyscraper
    The Newby-McMahon Building, commonly referred to as the world’s littlest skyscraper, is located at 701 LaSalle Street in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas. This late Neoclassical style red brick and cast stone structure is tall, and its exterior dimensions are deep and wide...

    , by J.D. McMahon opened in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas
    Wichita Falls, Texas
    Wichita Falls is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States, United States. Wichita Falls is the principal city of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Archer, Clay and Wichita counties. According to the U.S. Census estimate of 2010,...

  • Julia Morgan
    Julia Morgan
    Julia Morgan was an American architect. The architect of over 700 buildings in California, she is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California...

     selected as the architect for William Randolph Hearst
    William Randolph Hearst
    William Randolph Hearst was an American business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887, after taking control of The San Francisco Examiner from his father...

    's La Cuesta Encantada, better known as Hearst Castle
    Hearst Castle
    Hearst Castle is a National Historic Landmark mansion located on the Central Coast of California, United States. It was designed by architect Julia Morgan between 1919 and 1947 for newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who died in 1951. In 1957, the Hearst Corporation donated the property to...

    , in San Simeon, California
    San Simeon, California
    San Simeon is a census-designated place on the Pacific coast of San Luis Obispo County, California. Its position along State Route 1 is approximately halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, each of those cities being roughly 230 mi away...


Events

  • Bauhaus
    Bauhaus
    ', commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term stood for "School of Building".The Bauhaus school was founded by...

     founded in Weimar
    Weimar
    Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...

     by Walter Gropius
    Walter Gropius
    Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....

    .
  • Start of the Glass Chain
    Glass Chain
    The Glass Chain or Crystal Chain sometimes known as the "Utopian Correspondence" was a chain letter that took place between November 1919 and December 1920. It was a correspondence of architects that formed a basis of expressionist architecture in Germany. It was initiated by Bruno Taut.-Names,...

     correspondence.

Awards

  • Royal Gold Medal
    Royal Gold Medal
    The Royal Gold Medal for architecture is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch, in recognition of an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture....

     - Leonard Stokes
    Leonard Stokes
    Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes was an English architect.Leonard Stokes was born in Southport in 1858. He trained in London and travelled in Germany and Italy. Most of his designs were for Roman Catholic buildings, including churches, convents and schools. His first outstanding work was the...

    .
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

  • 21 June - Paolo Soleri
    Paolo Soleri
    Paolo Soleri is an Italian-American architect. He established Arcosanti and the educational Cosanti Foundation. Soleri is a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006.-Early life:Soleri was born in Turin, Italy...

  • Giancarlo De Carlo
    Giancarlo De Carlo
    Giancarlo De Carlo was an Italian architect.He was born in Genoa, Liguria in 1919. He trained as an architect from 1942 to 1949, a time of political turmoil which generated his philosophy toward life and architecture...

     (died 2005
    2005 in architecture
    The year 2005 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:*March 5 - The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart designed by Hascher et Jehle opens.*April 6 - New facility for the Milan Trade Fair in Milan, Italy, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas, opens....

    )
  • Mualla Eyüboğlu
    Mualla Eyüboğlu
    Mualla Eyüboğlu Anhegger was one of the first female architects of Turkey. She is known for her restoration work on the Topkapı Palace harem room and the Rumelihisarı in Istanbul.Eyüboğlu was born in 1919 in Aziziye, Erzurum...

     (died 2009
    2009 in architecture
    The year 2009 in architecture involves some significant events.-Buildings:*January 17 - Copenhagen Concert Hall, designed by Jean Nouvel, opens.*January 31 - Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, opens....

    )
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