1940 in architecture
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The year 1940 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- The Timişoara Orthodox CathedralTimisoara Orthodox CathedralThe Timişoara Orthodox Cathedral is a Romanian Orthodox cathedral in Timişoara, Romania. It was built between 1937 and 1940. It is dedicated to the Three Holy Hierarchs, Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom...
, in TimişoaraTimisoaraTimișoara is the capital city of Timiș County, in western Romania. One of the largest Romanian cities, with an estimated population of 311,586 inhabitants , and considered the informal capital city of the historical region of Banat, Timișoara is the main social, economic and cultural center in the...
, RomaniaRomaniaRomania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
, is completed. - The Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach, FloridaMiami Beach, FloridaMiami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter which separates the Beach from Miami city proper...
is built by Lawrence Murray Dixon. - Walton Yacht Works at Walton on Thames, EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, by Jane DrewJane DrewDame Jane Drew, DBE, FRIBA was an English modernist architect and town planner. She qualified at the AA School in London, and prior to World War II became one of the leading exponents of the Modern Movement in London....
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Events
- The last of the White Pine Series of Architectural MonographsWhite Pine Series of Architectural MonographsThe White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, subtitled "A Bi-Monthly Publication Suggesting the Architectural Use of White Pine and Its Availability Today as a Structural Wood", was a landmark publication of drawings, photographs and descriptions of early American architecture...
, begun in 19161916 in architectureThe year 1916 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:*Colony Club in New York City by McKim, Mead & White, later the home of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts school-Events:...
, is published. - Thomas SharpThomas Wilfred SharpThomas Wilfred Sharp was an English urban planner and writer. He was born in Bishop Auckland in County Durham, England. He attended the local grammar school and then spent four years working for the borough surveyor...
's Pelican book Town Planning is published in EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – William Adams DelanoWilliam Adams DelanoWilliam Adams Delano , an American architect, was a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich. The firm worked in the Beaux-Arts tradition for elite clients in New York City, Long Island and elsewhere, building townhouses, country houses, clubs, banks and buildings for...
. - Royal Gold MedalRoyal Gold MedalThe 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....
- Charles VoyseyCharles Voysey (architect)Charles Francis Annesley Voysey was an English architect and furniture and textile designer. Voysey's early work was as a designer of wallpapers, fabrics and furnishings in a simple Arts and Crafts style, but he is renowned as the architect of a number of notable country houses...
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Births
- January 14 - Helmut JahnHelmut JahnHelmut Jahn is a German-American architect, well known for designs such as the US$800 million Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, the Messeturm in Frankfurt and the One Liberty Place, formerly the tallest building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Suvarnabhumi Airport, an international...
- June 24 - Claude VasconiClaude VasconiClaude Vasconi was a French architect.Vasconi was educated at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et de l'Industrie in Strasbourg. In 1964, he set up office in Paris...
(died 20092009 in architectureThe 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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Deaths
- February 27 - Peter BehrensPeter BehrensPeter Behrens was a German architect and designer. He was important for the modernist movement, as several of the movements leading names worked for him when they were young.-Biography:Behrens attended the Christianeum Hamburg from September 1877 until Easter 1882...
(b. 18681868 in architectureThe year 1868 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* Alfred Waterhouse wins the competition for the design of Manchester Town Hall in England.* The Gyeongbokgung of Korea is completed.-Awards:...
) - June 11 - John A. PearsonJohn A. PearsonJohn Andrew Pearson was an early 20th Century Canadian architect and partner to the Toronto-based firm of Pearson and Darling.Pearson emigrated to Canada in 1888...
(b. 18671867 in architectureThe year 1867 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* January 1 — The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky is formally opened....
) - August 22 - Paul GöschPaul GoschPaul Gösch , also Goesch or Göschen, was a German artist, architect, lithographer, and designer of the early twentieth century; he was associated with the main elements of German Expressionism....
(b. 18851885 in architectureThe year 1885 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, designed by William LeBaron Jenney, is completed, often regarded as the world's first skyscraper....
) - October 20 - Gunnar AsplundGunnar AsplundErik Gunnar Asplund was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life as a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition...
(b. 18851885 in architectureThe year 1885 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, designed by William LeBaron Jenney, is completed, often regarded as the world's first skyscraper....
) - December 13 - Marc Camoletti (b. 1857)