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The year 1925 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

  • April–October – International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes) in Paris.
  • May 25 – Second Madison Square Garden (the version built 1890 and designed by Stanford White) is closed on this date and demolished shortly after.
  • St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church (12th century) is shipped from Sacramenia, Segovia, Spain to the United States by William Randolph Hearst.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

  • November 18 – Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, designed by Delano & Aldrich opens. 4,800 people come to see the building on opening day, followed by 3,000 people the next day.

Buildings completed

thumb|[[Altare della Patria in Rome, Italy]]

  • Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D.C.), designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton, opens.
  • Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), designed by Yehuda Magidovitch, is completed.
  • Administration Building at Texas Technological College (modern-day Texas Tech University) in Lubbock, Texas, designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick, opens.
  • Altare della Patria (Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II) in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi (died 1905) in 1884, is completed.
  • Uppståndelsekapellet (Resurrection Chapel), Skogskyrkogården (Woodland Cemetery), Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz, is built.
  • Villa Le Trident at Théoule-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, designed by Barry Dierks, is built.
  • Ennis House in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • Government House of Thailand, in Bangkok, then known as Baan Norasingha (), designed by Corrado Feroci.

Awards

  • AIA Gold Medal – Edwin Lutyens; Bertram Goodhue.
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Giles Gilbert Scott.
  • Prix de Rome, architecture: Alfred Audoul.

Births

thumb|upright|[[Robert Venturi]]

  • January 14 – Aarno Ruusuvuori, Finnish architect (died 1992)
  • January 17 – Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian American architect (died 2017)
  • April 6 – Paul Ritter, Australian architect, town planner, sociologist, artist and author (died 2010)
  • May 18 – Justus Dahinden, Swiss architect and writer (died 2020)
  • May 31 – Frei Otto, German Pritzker Prize-winning architect and structural engineer (died 2015)
  • June 25 – Robert Venturi, American Pulitzer Prize-winning architect (died 2018)
  • August 20 – Henning Larsen, Danish architect (died 2013)

Deaths

  • January 8 – Stewart Henbest Capper, British Arts and Crafts architect (born 1859)
  • April 13 – August Endell, German Jugendstil architect and designer (born 1871)
  • September 13 – Emily Elizabeth Holman, American architect (born 1854)
  • December 26 – Jan Letzel, Czech architect (born 1880)

References