1921 in architecture explained

The year 1921 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• March – Puhl & Wagner are contracted to decorate the interior of the Golden Hall (Stockholm City Hall) with neo-Byzantine mosaics designed by Einar Forseth.
• March 21 – Teatro Yagüez in Puerto Rico, designed by José Sabàs Honoré, reopens.
• May 27 – A Buddha image is enshrined in the main hall of the Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission in Hawai'i, as part of a dedication ceremony for the building.^[1]
• September 5 – The Cervantes Theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba.^[2]
• Hugo Häring and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe submit a competition entry for a Friedrichstrasse office building, fully made of glass.
• Construction work begins on the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, designed by Simon Rodia.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• January 23  - Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai, China, designed by Robert Bradshaw Moorhead and Sidney Joseph Halse, is dedicated.
• March 3  - New terminal at the Central railway station, Sydney, Australia, complete with clock tower.^[3]
• May 2  - Cunard Building (New York City), designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris with consultants Carrère and Hastings.
• October 26  - The Chicago Theatre movie palace in the United States.^[4]
• October 28  - The Theater Pathé Tuschinski movie/live theatre in Amsterdam, designed by Hijman Louis de Jong.

Buildings completed

• The Einstein Tower near Potsdam, Germany, designed by Erich Mendelsohn.^[5]
• Berliner Tageblatt, designed by Erich Mendelsohn.
• Harkness Tower in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, after 4 years of construction.
• The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, United States is completed (except for domes added in 1937).
• The Wong Tai Sin Temple (Hong Kong) is moved to its current site and completed.
• New Hindu Durgiana Temple in Amritsar.
• Michel de Klerk's Het Schip housing development for Eigen Haard in Amsterdam.
• Monument to the March Dead (Denkmal der Märzgefallenen), by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany.
• The Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States.
• Wolseley House (showroom and offices), 160 Piccadilly, London, designed by William Curtis Green.

Designs

• Adolf Loos designs a mausoleum for Max Dvořák that is never built.^[6]

Awards

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Cass Gilbert.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Edwin Lutyens.

Births

• January 15 – Ulrich Franzen, German-born American "Brutalist" architect,^[7] in Düsseldorf (died 2012)
• February 26 – Angelo Mangiarotti, Italian architect and industrial designer, in Milan (died 2012)
• March 14 – Ada Louise Huxtable, New York architecture critic and writer (died 2013)
• July 22 – Colin Madigan, Australian architect (died 2011)
• September 6 – Lyubow Demeetriyevna Oosava, Russian-born Belarusian architect (died 2015)

Deaths

• March 3 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch church and museum architect (born 1827)
• May 18 – Martin Nyrop, Danish architect of Copenhagen City Hall (born 1849)^[8]
• June 1 – Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, Scottish Victorian architect (born 1834)
• December 10 – George Ashlin, Irish ecclesiastical architect (born 1837)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Historic Places in Hawaii County . official state web site . 2010-04-19 .
2. http://www.teatrocervantes.gov.ar/sitio/site/home/home.php Teatro Cervantes
3. Web site: Central Station - in-depth history . . . 3 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130810221634/http://sydneytrains.info/about/history/central_station_in-depth . 10 August 2013 .
4. Web site: Historic Theatres & Movie Palaces of Balaban and Katz: The Chicago Theatre, A Brief History. June 13, 2014. Compass Rose Cultural Crossroads, Inc.. Uptown Chicago Resources (online). 2007.
5. Paul Sigel, Silke Dähmlow, Frank Seehausen und Lucas Elmenhorst, Architekturführer Potsdam – Architectural Guide, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2006, .
6. Book: Masheck, Joseph. Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture. 2013-05-15. I.B.Tauris. 978-1-78076-423-8. 254.
7. Vitello, Paul (14 October 2012). Ulrich Franzen, Designer of Brutalist Buildings, Dies at 91, The New York Times
8. Funder, Lise (1979). Arkitekten Martin Nyrop. København: Foreningen til gamle Bygningers Bevaring.