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The year 1916 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures[edit]

Buildings[edit]

Giles Gilbert Scott's Church of St Paul, Liverpool completed
  • Colony Club at Park Avenue & 62nd Streer in New York City by Delano & Aldrich with interiors by Elsie de Wolfe, later the East Coast school of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, completed.
  • Main building of St Hugh's College, Oxford in England by Herbert Tudor Buckland and William Haywood completed.
  • Church of St Paul, Liverpool in England by Giles Gilbert Scott completed.
  • Holland House (shipping company offices) in the City of London, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed.[1]

Events[edit]

  • c. November – The Incorporation of Architects in Scotland founded in Edinburgh.
  • Publication of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs is initiated, continuing until 1940.

Awards[edit]

  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Robert Rowand Anderson.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held.

Births[edit]

Dom Mintoff
  • January 23 – Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, German architect (d. 1961)
  • April 4 – Robert S. McMillan, American architect (d. 2001)
  • May 4 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian urban theorist (d. 2006)
  • May 21 – Leonard Manasseh, Singapore-born British architect (d. 2017)
  • June 29 – John M. Johansen, American architect (d. 2012)
  • July 1 – Lawrence Halprin, American architect (d. 2009)
  • August 6 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese architect and Prime Minister (d. 2012)
  • November 1 – John C. Harkness, American architect
  • November 9 – Richard Tyler, British architect (d. 2009)
  • Dewi-Prys Thomas, British architect (d. 1985)

Deaths[edit]

  • March 22 – Ferdinand Fellner, Austrian architect (b. 1847)
  • June – Addison Hutton, American architect (b. 1834)
  • July 22 – Hans Jørgen Holm, Danish architect (b. 1835)
  • October 10 – Antonio Sant'Elia, Italian architect (killed in action) (b. 1888)
  • December 22 – Gyula Pártos, Hungarian architect (b. 1845)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Wittekind, Sarah. "1916: Holland House, London". 100 Buildings 100 Years. The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 2016-04-22. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)