1935 in architecture

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The year 1935 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

May 29 – Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ocean liner SS Normandie, with Art Déco and Streamline Moderne interiors designed under the supervision of Roger-Henri Expert, begins her maiden voyage.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

May 31 - Jubilee Pool, Penzance in Cornwall, England by Frank Latham.^[1]
June 2 – Saint Constantine and Elena Cathedral, Bălți, Moldova.^[2]
July 6 – New building for Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, by Ad van der Steur.
July 13 – Shoreham Airport terminal building in England, by Stavers Tiltman.
July 22 – Odeon, Kingstanding cinema in Birmingham, England, by Harry Weedon and Cecil Clavering.^[3]
August 3 – Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo, South Island of New Zealand, by Richard Strachan De Renzy Harman after Esther Hope, is consecrated.
August 5 – Eastbourne Bandstand in Eastbourne, England.
September 30 – Boulder Dam, by John L. Savage (design engineer) with Gordon Kaufmann (supervising architect), is dedicated.
November 4 – Hornsey Town Hall, London, by Reginald Uren.
November 5 – Faringdon Folly tower, England, by Lord Gerald Wellesley for Lord Berners.
November 18
- Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia, by Kārlis Zāle, is unveiled.
- Opelwerk Brandenburg, Germany, begins production, 190 days after the laying of the foundation stone.^[4]

Buildings completed

Fallingwater in southwestern Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Florya Atatürk Marine Mansion, Istanbul, designed by Seyfi Arkan and gifted to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk^[5]^[6]
Highpoint I apartment block, Highgate, north London, by Berthold Lubetkin with structural design by Ove Arup
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England, by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff
Supreme Court of the United States by Cass Gilbert, completed posthumously
Von Sternberg House, Northridge, California, by Richard Neutra
Stern House, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa, by Rex Distin Martienssen and partners
Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan, by Piero Portaluppi^[7]
Stockholm Collective House by Sven Markelius with Alva Myrdal
Dispensario Antituberculoso, Barcelona, by Josep Lluís Sert
An-Nasr Mosque, Nablus, Palestine^[8]
Grand Mosque of Mopti, French Sudan
El Omrane Mosque, Tunis^[9]
Sacred Heart Cathedral, New Delhi, India, designed by Henry Medd^[10]
Church of Our Lady and the First Martyrs, Heaton, West Yorkshire, England, designed by J. H. Langtry-Langton
Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden, designed by Nils Einar Ericsson
Vyborg Library, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto^[11]
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage

Exhibitions

Opened to the public April 19 - Industrial arts exposition at the Forum at Rockefeller Center in New York City; where models and plans for Frank Lloyd Wright's proposed Broadacre City were displayed for the first time.^[12]^[13]

Awards

RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Willem Marinus Dudok.
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Paul Domenc.

Births

March 3 – Corinne Bennett, née Wilson, English conservation architect (died 2010)
May 7 – Michael Hopkins, English architect (died 2023)
June 1 – Norman Foster, English architect, head of international design practice Foster and Partners^[14]
November 20 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (died 2011)^[15]
October 27 – Giorgio Grassi, Italian architect
October 31 – John Melvin, English architect

Deaths

March 27 – Francis Rattenbury, English architect, worked chiefly in Canada (born 1867; murdered)
April 5 – Basil Champneys, English architect and author (born 1842)
July 6 – Claude Ferrier, British Art Deco architect (born 1879)
July 7 – George W. Keller, American architect and engineer (born 1842)
September 2 – Sir Henry Tanner, English public building architect (born 1849)^[16]

References

^ "Captain Latham, His Monument". Penwith Local History Group. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
^ "2 june 1935". Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
^ "Odeon Cinema Kingstanding, Birmingham". Modernist Britain. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
^ Schneider, Hans-Jürgen. (1987). 125 Jahre Opel, Autos und Technik. Verlag Schneider+Repschläger. No known ISBN.
^ "Florya Atatürk Deniz Köşkü". ataturk.net. Archived from the original on 2015-06-07. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
^ "Florya Atatürk Deniz Köşkü" (in Turkish). Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. Archived from the original on 2011-10-29. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
^ St Hill, Cate (2014-01-28). "Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan by Piero Portaluppi". Retrieved 2017-03-30.
^ Salameh, Khader Ibrahim (2001). The Qurʼān Manuscripts in the Al-Haram Al-Sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem. Garnet & Ithaca Press. p. 190. ISBN 1-85964-132-6.
^ "Lieux de culte Municipalité de Tunis" (in French). Government of Tunis. Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2010-07-23.
^ "Sacred Heart Cathedral, Delhi". sacredheartcathedraldelhi.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-18.
^ Norberg-Schulz, Christian (1997). Nightlands: Nordic Building. MIT Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-262-64036-7.
^ Naylor, Blanche (1935). "Industrial Art Exhibit". Design. 37 (2): 14–43. doi:10.1080/00119253.1935.10740981.
^ "Reading Broadacre - Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation".
^ Philip Jodidio; Norman Foster (1997). Sir Norman Foster. Edition en anglais, allemand et français. Taschen. p. 168. ISBN 978-3-8228-8071-5.
^ Heathcote, Edwin (2011-09-28). "Imre Makovecz (1935–2011)". bdonline.
^ Port, M. H. (January 2008) [2004]. "Tanner, Sir Henry (1849–1935)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63423. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[1] "Captain Latham, His Monument". Penwith Local History Group. Retrieved 6 December 2021.

[2] "2 june 1935". Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2015-02-19.

[3] "Odeon Cinema Kingstanding, Birmingham". Modernist Britain. Retrieved 2014-02-21.

[4] Schneider, Hans-Jürgen. (1987). 125 Jahre Opel, Autos und Technik. Verlag Schneider+Repschläger. No known ISBN.

[a-5] "Florya Atatürk Deniz Köşkü". ataturk.net. Archived from the original on 2015-06-07. Retrieved 2011-11-10.

[ktb-6] "Florya Atatürk Deniz Köşkü" (in Turkish). Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. Archived from the original on 2011-10-29. Retrieved 2011-11-10.

[7] St Hill, Cate (2014-01-28). "Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan by Piero Portaluppi". Retrieved 2017-03-30.

[8] Salameh, Khader Ibrahim (2001). The Qurʼān Manuscripts in the Al-Haram Al-Sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem. Garnet & Ithaca Press. p. 190. ISBN 1-85964-132-6.

[9] "Lieux de culte Municipalité de Tunis" (in French). Government of Tunis. Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2010-07-23.

[10] "Sacred Heart Cathedral, Delhi". sacredheartcathedraldelhi.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-18.

[11] Norberg-Schulz, Christian (1997). Nightlands: Nordic Building. MIT Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-262-64036-7.

[12] Naylor, Blanche (1935). "Industrial Art Exhibit". Design. 37 (2): 14–43. doi:10.1080/00119253.1935.10740981.

[13] "Reading Broadacre - Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation".

[14] Philip Jodidio; Norman Foster (1997). Sir Norman Foster. Edition en anglais, allemand et français. Taschen. p. 168. ISBN 978-3-8228-8071-5.

[15] Heathcote, Edwin (2011-09-28). "Imre Makovecz (1935–2011)". bdonline.

[16] Port, M. H. (January 2008) [2004]. "Tanner, Sir Henry (1849–1935)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63423. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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