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Overview of the events of 1939 in architecture
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The year
1939 in architecture
involved some significant events.
Contents
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
Other buildings
Awards
Births
Deaths
References
Events
Jane Drew
sets up an all-female architectural practice in
London
.
Buildings and structures
See also:
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1949
Buildings opened
Barber Institute of Fine Arts
April 21
– The
San Jacinto Monument
near
Houston, Texas
, United States.
April 30
–
1939 New York World's Fair
. Notable examples of temporary architecture include the
Trylon and Perisphere
designed by
Wallace Harrison
and
J. André Fouilhoux
and the Ireland pavilion designed by
Michael Scott
.
[
1
]
May 7
–
Vulcan Park
in
Birmingham, Alabama
, USA.
June 14
– St Peter the Apostle Roman Catholic Church,
Gorleston
, England, designed by
Eric Gill
.
July 26
– The
Barber Institute of Fine Arts
at the
University of Birmingham
, England, designed by
Robert Atkinson
.
November 16
–
Uptown Theater (Minneapolis)
, designed by
Liebenberg and Kaplan
.
Other buildings
The
Jefferson Memorial
in
Washington, D.C.
The
Jefferson Memorial
in
Washington, D.C.
, designed by
John Russell Pope
, is begun.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
, Australia, designed by
William Wardell
in 1858, is completed.
Dome of
Saint Joseph's Oratory
in
Montreal
, Quebec, Canada is completed.
Hotel Vancouver
in
Vancouver
, British Columbia, Canada.
Impington Village College
in England, designed by
Walter Gropius
and
Maxwell Fry
, is completed.
Daily Express Building, Manchester
, England, designed by engineer
Sir Owen Williams
, is completed.
Marine Gate
(apartments) in
Brighton
, England, designed by Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie, is built.
Remodelling of the village, manor house and parish church of
Cornwell, Oxfordshire
, England, by
Clough Williams-Ellis
is completed.
Villa Mairea
in
Noormarkku
, Finland, designed by
Alvar Aalto
for Harry and
Maire Gullichsen
, is completed.
Tip Top Bakery
,
St Paul's Cray
, London, designed by engineers
Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners
.
Awards
RIBA
Royal Gold Medal
–
Percy Thomas
.
Grand Prix de Rome
, architecture:
Bernard Zehrfuss
.
Births
March 3
–
Eva Jiřičná
, Czech-born architect and interior designer
June 21
–
Charles Jencks
, American architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer (died
2019
)
October 1
–
Philip Cox
, Australian architect
October 9
–
Nicholas Grimshaw
, English modernist architect (died
2025
)
December 5
–
Ricardo Bofill
, Catalan postmodernist architect (died
2022
)
Vladimir Shukhov
Deaths
January 9
–
Jānis Alksnis
, Latvian architect and builder (born
1869
)
February 2
–
Vladimir Shukhov
, Russian structural engineer (born
1853
)
February 7
–
Detmar Blow
, English architect (born
1867
)
September 26
–
Kirtland Cutter
, American architect (born
1860
)
References
↑
"1939 – Irish Pavilion, New York World's Fair"
.
Archiseek
. Retrieved
2015-03-31
.
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