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Overview of the events of 1948 in architecture
The year 1948 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
Buildings and structures
V. C. Morris Gift Shop –
Frank Lloyd Wright's prototype for the Guggenheim Museum
Equitable Building (Portland, Oregon)
Buildings
- September 10 – The
Tripler Army Medical Center in
Honolulu,
Hawaii,
United States is dedicated.
[1]
- December –
Carswell House in
Newark, Delaware, by
Edward Durell Stone, completed.
[2]
-
Mile High Stadium in
Denver, Colorado completed.
-
V. C. Morris Gift Shop (later, Xanadu Gallery) in
San Francisco, by
Frank Lloyd Wright.
[3]
-
Morannedd Café (later, Dylan's),
Criccieth Esplanade, Wales, by
Clough Williams-Ellis, built (approximate date).
-
Mampong Teacher's Training College and
Prempeh College,
Kumasi, both in
Ghana, by
Maxwell Fry and
Jane Drew.
- Burleigh Primary School,
Cheshunt, England, by
Mary Crowley, opened.
-
Equitable Building (Portland, Oregon), by
Pietro Belluschi, completed.
[4]
-
Holy Family Old Cathedral (Anchorage, Alaska), by Augustine A. Porreca, is completed.
-
Calvert Manor apartment building in
Arlington, Virginia, by
Mihran Mesrobian, built.
[5]
-
Bachman House in Chicago, remodeling by
Bruce Goff, completed.
-
Ledbetter House in
Norman, Oklahoma, by Bruce Goff, completed.
-
Elkay Apartments in
Los Angeles, California, by
Richard Neutra, built.
-
Herman T. Mossberg Residence in
South Bend, Indiana, by
Frank Lloyd Wright, built.
-
Herbert and Katherine Jacobs Second House in
Madison, Wisconsin, by Frank Lloyd Wright, completed.
-
Jack Lamberson House in
Oskaloosa, Iowa, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built.
-
Haines Shoe House in
Hallam, Pennsylvania, built.
[6]
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 19
- January 22 – Sir
Alfred Brumwell Thomas, English architect (born
1868)
- February 2 – Sir
Charles Herbert Reilly, English architect and teacher (born
1874)
- March 29 –
Olev Siinmaa, Estonian-Swedish architect (born
1881)
- June 16 –
Horace Field, English architect (born
1861)
- August 1 –
George Skipper, English architect (born
1856)
- August 20 –
Emery Roth, Hungarian-born American architect (born
1871)
- September 3 –
Frank Mills Andrews, American architect (born
1867)
- October –
Benedict Williamson, English-born architect and Roman Catholic priest (born
1868)
- October 1 –
Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, Polish architect (born
1883)
- October 27 –
Albert Randolph Ross, American architect (born
1868)
-
John Robert Dillon, American architect
References