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The year 1933 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

  • The Bauhaus school in Berlin is permanently closed by the Nazi government.
  • Modern Architectural Research Group (MARS Group) established as a think tank by younger architects and critics involved in the modernist movement in Great Britain.
  • Completion of restoration of Herstmonceux Castle in England by Walter Godfrey.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

  • February 21 – Nebotičnik skyscraper, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, designed by Vladimir Šubic.
  • July – New Midland Hotel, Morecambe, Lancashire, England, designed by Oliver Hill.
  • August 23 – Leeds Civic Hall, Yorkshire, England, designed by Vincent Harris in 1926.
  • November 29 – Schwandbach Bridge, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart.
  • Royal Masonic Hospital (later Ravenscourt Park Hospital) at Ravenscourt Park in London, designed by Thomas S. Tait of Sir John Burnet, Tait and Lorne.
  • Labworth Café on Canvey Island, England, designed by engineer Ove Arup.
  • 1933 Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition, Chicago

Buildings completed

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  • St Gabriel's Anglican Church in Blackburn, England, designed by F. X. Velarde.
  • Városmajori Roman Catholic church in Budapest, completed by Bertalan Árkay following the death in 1932 of his father Aladár Árkay.
  • Myer Emporium renovation, Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia.
  • The Round House, designed by Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton Architectural Group to house gorillas at London Zoo, one of the first modernist buildings in Britain.
  • Battersea Power Station, London, with Giles Gilbert Scott as consultant architect, begins operation.
  • College Hall, Royal Air Force College Cranwell, England, designed by James Grey West.
  • Mardon Hall, first of the University of Exeter Halls of Residence in England, designed by Vincent Harris.
  • Darbishire Quad at Somerville College, Oxford, England, designed by Morley Horder.
  • Mercado de Abastos de Algeciras (market hall), Spain, designed by Eduardo Torroja.
  • Villa Markelius in Stockholm, designed by Sven Markelius for himself.
  • Schminke house in Löbau, Germany, designed by Hans Scharoun.
  • Engel House, White City (Tel Aviv), Mandatory Palestine, designed by Zeev Rechter.
  • Töss Footbridge, Winterthur, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart.

Awards

  • AIA Gold Medal – Ragnar Östberg.
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Charles Reed Peers.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Alexandre Courtois.

Publications

  • John Betjeman – Ghastly Good Taste, or the depressing story of the rise and fall of British architecture.
  • The Information Book of Sir John Burnet, Tait & Lorne.

Births

  • February 2 – Rodney Gordon, British architect (died 2008)
  • June 25 – Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect and architectural educator
  • July 23
  • Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (died 2010)
  • Richard Rogers, Italian-born British modernist and functionalist architect (died 2021)
  • October 29 – John Andrews, Australian architect (died 2022)
  • November 4 – Terje Moe, Norwegian architect (died 2009)
  • November 24 - Isaac Fola-Alade, Nigerian architect (1004 Estate) (died 2021)

Deaths

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  • January – Edward Lippincott Tilton, American architect based in New York (born 1861)
  • March 10 – Émile André, French architect, artist and furniture designer (born 1871)
  • April 16 – Harold Peto, English architect and garden designer (born 1854)
  • August 8
  • Luca Beltrami, Italian architect and architectural historian (born 1854)
  • Adolf Loos, Austrian/Czechoslovak architect and writer (born 1870)
  • December 4 – W. G. R. Sprague, British theatre architect (born 1863)
  • December 24 – Sir Frank Baines, English architect (born 1877)

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