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.
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
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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.
- 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.
- 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 in Cologne, designed by Carl Moritz.
- National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, designed by Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen.
- Liberty Tower (Manhattan) in New York, designed by Henry Ives Cobb.
- Giesshübel warehouse in Zürich, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart.
- Catholic church of St John the Baptist, 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.
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
- 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.