1920 in architecture

Overview of the events of 1920 in architecture

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The year 1920 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Events

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* Construction of Welwyn Garden City in England begins with Louis de Soissons as architect and town planner.
* Edith Hughes establishes her own architectural practice, in Glasgow, the first British woman to do so.
* In the first issue of the Purist art magazine L' Esprit Nouveau co-founded by him, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris adopts the pseudonym Le Corbusier.

## Buildings and structures

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The Cenotaph, Whitehall in London, on 11 November 1920 Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Canada

### Buildings opened

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* November 11 – The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London, designed by Edwin Lutyens.[1]

Hartford Times Building. Architect: Donn Barber

### Buildings completed

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* Ajuria Enea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, designed by Alfredo Baeschlin.
* Coliseum Theatre (Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia.
* Hartford Times Building, Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Donn Barber[2]
* Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
* Oak Tower, Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
* Oslo Synagogue, Norway.
* Teatro Municipal (Lima), Peru.
* Bankstown Reservoir in Sydney, Australia

## Awards

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* AIA Gold Medal – Egerton Swartwout
* Olympic silver medal – Holger Sinding-Larsen of Norway for Project for a gymnastics school (no other medals awarded)
* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Charles Louis Girault
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Michel Roux-Spitz

## Births

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* January 23 – Gottfried Böhm, German architect (died 2021)
* July 16 – Peter Yates, English architect (died 1982)
* August 21 – Vincent Scully, American architectural historian (died 2017)
* September 2 – Romaldo Giurgola, Italian-American-Australian academic architect, professor and author (died 2016)
* October 21 – William Whitfield, English architect (died 2019)
* December 28 – Bruce McCarty, American architect (died 2013)

## Deaths

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* March 12 – Hermann Eggert, German architect (born 1888)
* May 17 – Jean-Louis Pascal, academic French architect (born 1837)
* May 18 – Frank Matcham, English theatrical architect and designer (born 1854)
* July 31 – Thomas Tryon, American architect (born 1859)
* October 22 – Ruggero Berlam, Italian architect (born 1854)

## References

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1. ^ Holland and Hannen and Cubitts Ltd. (1920). Cubitts: its inception and development. London: Holland & Hannen and Cubitts Ltd. p. 10.
2. ^ "Hartford Times Building (1920)". Historic Buildings of Connecticut. Retrieved 13 October 2020.

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