1925 in architecture

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The year 1925 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Bauhaus Dessau

• The Bauhaus moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius
• Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D.C.), designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton, opens
• Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), designed by Yehuda Magidovitch, is completed
• The Administration Building at Texas Technological College (modern-day Texas Tech University) in Lubbock, Texas, designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick, opens
• The Altare della Patria (Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II) in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi (died 1905) in 1884, is completed

Events

• Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes
• The German Zehnerring group becomes Der Ring.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Edwin Lutyens; Bertram Goodhue.
• Royal Gold Medal - Giles Gilbert Scott.
• Prix de Rome, architecture: Alfred Audoul.

Births

• May 18 - Justus Dahinden, Swiss architect and writer^[1]
• May 31 - Frei Otto, German Pritzker Prize-winning architect and structural engineer (died 2015)
• June 25 - Robert Venturi, American Pulitzer Prize-winning architect

Deaths

• September 13 - Emily Elizabeth Holman, American architect (born 1854)
• December 26 - Jan Letzel, Czech architect (born 1880)^[2]

References

1. "Justus Dahinden". Great Buildings.
2. A look at the Czech architect who built Hiroshima's Industrial Promotion Hall — today's A-Bomb Dome