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The year 1914 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

  • April 11 – Alpha Rho Chi, a professional architecture fraternity, is founded in the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
  • May 15–August 8 – Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne, featuring the Glass Pavilion designed by Bruno Taut.
  • August 15 – A dismissed servant kills seven people at American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's studio and home, Taliesin in Wisconsin (including Wright's mistress, Mamah Borthwick), and sets it on fire.
  • Lucy Greenish is the first woman to become a registered architect in New Zealand.

Buildings and structures

Buildings and structures opened

  • January 14 – "Bridge of Sighs" at Hertford College, Oxford, England, designed by Sir Thomas Jackson.
  • April – Opera House, Wellington, New Zealand, designed by William Pitt.
  • May 7 – King Edward VII Galleries at the British Museum, London, designed by Sir John Burnet.
  • June 1 – Fairmont Palliser Hotel in Calgary, Alberta
  • August 15 – The Panama Canal, completed by George Washington Goethals.
  • December 7 – Tepid Baths, Auckland, New Zealand.

Buildings completed

thumb|Basilica of [[Sacré-Cœur, Paris, France]]

  • Basilica of Sacré-Cœur, Paris, designed by Paul Abadie.
  • Berlin State Library, Berlin, designed by Ernst von Ihne
  • Casa Loma, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Park Guell in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antonio Gaudi.
  • Stralsund Theatre, Germany, designed by Carl Moritz.
  • Interior of Cadena Café, 59 Westbourne Grove, London, designed by Omega Workshops.
  • US Post Office, Westerly, Rhode Island, designed by James Knox Taylor and considered "the finest post office in the state."

Awards

  • AIA Gold Medal – Jean-Louis Pascal.
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Jean-Louis Pascal.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert Ferran.

Publications

  • Albert Richardson – Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland
  • Geoffrey Scott – The Architecture of Humanism: a study in the history of taste

Births

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  • February 24 – Ralph Erskine, English architect working in Sweden (died 2005)
  • July 8 – Sarah P. Harkness, American architect (died 2013)
  • August 9 – Gordon Cullen, influential English architect and urban designer (died 1994)
  • September 8 – Denys Lasdun, English architect best known for the Royal National Theatre, London (died 2001)
  • September 13 – Ralph Rapson, American architect and head of architecture at the University of Minnesota (died 2008)
  • October 31 – Edward Allcard, British architect and yachtsman (died 2017)
  • December 5 – Lina Bo Bardi, Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect (died 1992)

Deaths

  • February 8 – Francesc Berenguer i Mestres, Spanish architect (born 1866)
  • May 24 – Herman Teodor Holmgren, Swedish architect (born 1842)
  • August 30 – Ingress Bell, English architect and professional partner of Sir Aston Webb (born 1837)

References