1924 in architecture

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

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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

Chilehaus in Hamburg, Germany

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.^[1]

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)^[2]
• March 23 – John Madin, English architect (died 2012)
• June 14 – Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect (died 2009)^[3]
• August 14 – Sverre Fehn, award-winning Norwegian architect (died 2009)^[4]
• August 16 – Philip Dowson, South African-born British architect (died 2014)
• December 4 – John C. Portman Jr., American architect and developer

Deaths

• April 14 – Louis Sullivan, American architect sometimes called the "father of skyscrapers"^[5] and "father of modernism"^[6] (born 1856)
• April 23 – Bertram Goodhue, American neo-gothic architect (born 1869)^[7]
• 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)