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The year 1924 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

  • May – Royal Fine Art Commission appointed to advise the government of the United Kingdom on matters concerning the built environment.
  • Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici begin work on their vacation home E-1027 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France

Buildings and structures

thumb|[[Chilehaus in Hamburg, Germany]]

thumb|[[Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht, Netherlands]]

Buildings completed

  • The Chilehaus in Hamburg, Germany, designed by Johann Friedrich Höger.
  • Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht, Netherlands, designed by Gerrit Rietveld.
  • Copenhagen Police Headquarters in Denmark, designed by Hack Kampmann (died 1920).
  • Midland Bank headquarters in the City of London, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building on Manhattan, designed by York and Sawyer.
  • American Radiator Building on Manhattan, designed by John Mead Howells, Raymond Hood and J. André Fouilhoux.
  • Queen Mary's Dolls' House in England, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
  • Church Rate Corner (private house) in Cambridge, England designed by Baillie Scott.

Awards

  • Olympic silver medal – Alfréd Hajós & Dezso Lauber of Hungary for Plan for Budapest Swimming Stadium.
  • Olympic bronze medal – Julien Médecin of Monaco for Stadium for Monte Carlo (no gold medal was awarded).
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Marcel Péchin.

Births

  • February 29 – Agustín Hernández Navarro, Mexican architect and sculptor (died 2022)
  • March 23 – John Madin, English architect (died 2012)
  • June 14 – Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect (died 2009)
  • August 14 – Sverre Fehn, award-winning Norwegian architect (died 2009)
  • August 16 – Philip Dowson, South African-born British architect (died 2014)
  • December 4 – John C. Portman Jr., American architect and developer (died 2017)

Deaths

  • April 14 – Louis Sullivan, American architect sometimes called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism" (born 1856)
  • April 23 – Bertram Goodhue, American neo-gothic architect (born 1869)
  • April 24 – Ferdinand Arnodin, French bridge engineer (born 1845)
  • August 11 – Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect (born 1841)
  • November 7 – Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, English architect active in Oxford (born 1835)

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