- 1918 in architecture
The year 1918 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
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Hallidie Building is built inSan Francisco . Designed byWillis Polk . Credited as the first glass curtain wall building.
*D. L. James House is built inCarmel Highlands ,California . Designed byGreene and Greene in anArts and crafts style.
* Police Headquarters are built inCopenhagen ,Denmark . Designed byHack Kampmann in a Neoclassical style.
* Our Lady of the Victories Basilica inMelbourne ,Australia is completed.
* Newman College inMelbourne ,Australia designed byWalter Burley Griffin , is completed.
* The Chapel of St. James, of theArchbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary inChicago , designed byZachary Taylor Davis , in the French Gothic style, is completed.
*Stockholm Library , designed byErik Gunnar Asplund is built inStockholm ,Sweden in aMannerist early modern style.
* TheWoodland Chapel is built inStockholm ,Sweden . Designed byErik Gunnar Asplund .Events
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November 3 –Baroque Marian column inPrague , theCzech Republic , destroyed by nationalists. (Built 1650)
*Arbeitsrat für Kunst andNovembergruppe are formed in Germany.Awards
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Royal Gold Medal -Ernest Newton .
*Grand Prix de Rome , architecture: (unknown).Births
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April 10 -Jørn Utzon
*Benjamin C. Thompson (died 2002)
*Aldo van Eyck (died 1999)Deaths
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April 11 -Otto Wagner (born 1841)
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