1932 in architecture

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The year 1932 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

• International Style by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock is published.
• The International Exhibition of Modern Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York spreads the International Style.
• John Wiley & Sons publishes Architectural Graphic Standards by Charles George Ramsey (1884–1963) and Harold Reeve Sleeper, the first book to present the accepted architectural practices of the time in a clear and accessible graphic form.

Buildings opened

Sydney Harbour Bridge

• March 19 - Sydney Harbour Bridge, designed by John Bradfield (engineer), is opened in Sydney, Australia.
• April 23 - New Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, designed by Elisabeth Scott, is opened, becoming the first important work erected in the United Kingdom by a woman architect.^[1]

PSFS Building, Philadelphia

• July 19 - Lambeth Bridge, London, designed by Geoffrey Groves.
• August 1 - Thiepval Memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, is inaugurated in the Somme (France).
• September 19 - Arnos Grove tube station, London, designed by Charles Holden.
• September 22 - Sheffield City Hall, Yorkshire, England, designed by Vincent Harris in 1920.
• November 16 - Parliament Buildings (Northern Ireland), Belfast, designed by Sir Arnold Thornely.
• November 25 - Saint Sophia Cathedral in Harbin, China.
• November 27 - Bixby Creek Bridge at Big Sur, California, designed by C. H. Purcell and F. W. Panhorst.

Other new buildings

• PSFS Building in Center City, Philadelphia, designed by George Howe and William Lescaze, first International Style skyscraper in the United States.
• High Cross House, Dartington Hall, Devon, England, designed by William Lescaze.
• Alameda Theatre (Alameda, California), United States, designed by Timothy L. Pflueger.
• Church of the Sacred Heart in Prague, designed by Josip Plecnik.
• The Daily Express Building, London, designed by Sir Owen Williams.
• The Hoover Building on the Western Avenue in Perivale, West London, designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners in Art Deco style.
• Maison de Verre, Paris, France, by Pierre Chareau, Bernard Bijvoet and Louis Dalbet.
• Paimio Sanatorium in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.
• Unilever House in the City of London, designed by James Lomax-Simpson of Unilever with Sir John Burnet and Thomas S. Tait of Sir John Burnet and Partners.^[2]
• Immeuble Clarté apartment building in Geneva, designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret.
• Harnischmacher House in Wiesbaden, Germany, designed by Marcel Breuer.
• Wohnbedarf furniture stores in Switzerland, designed by Marcel Breuer.
• Douaumont ossuary, designed by Léon Azéma to house the bones of at least 130,000 unidentified soldiers of both sides who died in the Battle of Verdun.

Awards

• Olympic gold medal - Gustave Saacké, Pierre Bailey and Pierre Montenot for Arena for bulls, Paris.
• Olympic silver medal - John Russell Pope of the USA for Design for Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
• Olympic bronze medal - Richard Konwiartz of Germany for Design for Schlesierkampfbahn, Breslau.
• Royal Gold Medal - Hendrik Petrus Berlage.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Camille Montagné.

Births

• July 6 - Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect and academic
• August 11 - Peter Eisenman, American architect
• Anthony Hunt, English structural engineer

Deaths

• April 17 - Sir Patrick Geddes, Scottish urban theorist (born 1854)
• August 19 - E. S. Prior, English Arts and crafts movement architect and theorist (born 1852)
• November - Abraham E. Lefcourt, American real estate developer (born 1876)
• December 8 - Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer (born 1843)
• December 28 - Léon Jaussely, French architect and urban planner (born 1857)

References

1. Pringle, Marian (1994). The Theatres of Stratford-upon-Avon, 1875-1992: an architectural history. Stratford-upon-Avon Society. p. 29. ISBN 0-9514178-1-9.
2. Aslet, Clive. "Unilever House, Blackfriars". The Thirties Society Journal 1: 18–21.