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Overview of the events of 1925 in architecture
The year 1925 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
Buildings completed
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Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D.C.), designed by
Edward Lippincott Tilton, opens.
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Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), designed by
Yehuda Magidovitch, is completed.
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Administration Building at Texas Technological College (modern-day
Texas Tech University) in
Lubbock, Texas, designed by
Wyatt C. Hedrick, opens.
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Altare della Patria (Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II) in Rome, designed by
Giuseppe Sacconi (died
1905) in
1884, is completed.
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Uppståndelsekapellet (Resurrection Chapel),
Skogskyrkogården (Woodland Cemetery),
Stockholm, Sweden, designed by
Sigurd Lewerentz, is built.
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Villa Le Trident at
Théoule-sur-Mer on the
French Riviera, designed by
Barry Dierks, is built.
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Government House of Thailand, in Bangkok, then known as Baan Norasingha (
Thai: บ้านนรสิงห์), designed by
Corrado Feroci.
Awards
Births
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January 14 –
Aarno Ruusuvuori, Finnish architect (died
1992)
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January 17 –
Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian American architect (died
2017)
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April 6 –
Paul Ritter, Australian architect, town planner, sociologist, artist and author (died
2010)
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May 18 –
Justus Dahinden, Swiss architect and writer
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May 31 –
Frei Otto, German Pritzker Prize-winning architect and structural engineer (died
2015)
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June 25 –
Robert Venturi, American Pulitzer Prize-winning architect (died
2018)
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August 20 –
Henning Larsen, Danish architect (died
2013)
Deaths
References