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1910 in architecture
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Overview of the events of 1910 in architecture
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The year
1910 in architecture
involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Contents
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
Buildings completed
Awards
Births
Deaths
References
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
Casa Milà in Barcelona, Spain
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
.
[
1
]
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
.
[
2
]
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
]
in
Cologne
, designed by
Carl Moritz
.
National Museum of Finland
, Helsinki, designed by
Herman Gesellius
,
Armas Lindgren
and
Eliel Saarinen
.
[
3
]
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
]
.
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
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
↑
Pevsner, Nikolaus
(1986).
The Buildings of England: Warwickshire
.
↑
Carpenter, Edmund J. (1911).
The Pilgrims and their Monument
. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Privately printed. p.
265
.
↑
"History of the National Museum"
. National Board of Antiquities.
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