1925 in architecture
The year 1925 in architecture involved some significant events.Events
Buildings opened
- November 18 – Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, designed by Delano & Aldrich opens. 4,800 people came to see the building on opening day, followed by 3,000 people the next day.
Buildings completed
- Mount Pleasant Library, designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton, opens
- Great Synagogue, designed by Yehuda Magidovitch, is completed
- Administration Building at Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas, designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick, opens
- Altare della Patria in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1884, is completed
- :File:Uppståndelsekapellet 2012c.jpg|Uppståndelsekapellet, Skogskyrkogården, 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.
- 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
- January 14 – Aarno Ruusuvuori, Finnish architect
- January 17 – Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian American architect
- April 6 – Paul Ritter, Australian architect, town planner, sociologist, artist and author
- May 18 – Justus Dahinden, Swiss architect and writer
- May 31 – Frei Otto, German Pritzker Prize-winning architect and structural engineer
- June 25 – Robert Venturi, American Pulitzer Prize-winning architect
- August 20 – Henning Larsen, Danish architect
Deaths
- January 8 – Stewart Henbest Capper, British Arts and Crafts architect
- April 13 – August Endell, German Jugendstil architect and designer
- September 13 – Emily Elizabeth Holman, American architect
- December 26 – Jan Letzel, Czech architect
