1931 in architecture
The year 1931 in architecture involved some significant events.Events
Buildings
- January 23 – Viceroy's House, New Delhi, India, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, first occupied.
- May 1 – The Empire State Building is completed in New York City as the tallest building in the world.
- July 1 – The rebuilt Milano Centrale railway station opens in Italy.
- July 19 – Sudbury Town station on the London Underground Piccadilly line opens as rebuilt by Charles Holden, the first of his iconic modern designs for the network.
- 21 West Street in New York City, designed by Starrett & van Vleck, completed.
- Villa Savoye in Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, using reinforced concrete and demonstrating Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture, is completed.
- Commerce Court North is completed in Toronto, Ontario and becomes the tallest building in the British Empire.
- George Washington Bridge the longest suspension bridge in the world by the length of central span, is completed.
- Royal Corinthian Yacht Club clubhouse, Burnham-on-Crouch, eastern England, designed by Joseph Emberton, is opened.
- St Olaf House, Tooley Street, London Borough of Southwark, designed by H. S. Goodhart-Rendel.
- Raleigh Bicycle Company head offices in Nottingham, England, designed by Thomas Cecil Howitt, completed.
- Aiton & Co. factory office, Derby, England, designed by Norah Aiton and Betty Scott, completed.
- India Tyres offices at Inchinnan, Scotland, designed by Thomas Wallis of Wallis, Gilbert and Partners, completed and opened.
- Atlantis House and Robinson Crusoe House in Böttcherstraße, Bremen, designed by Bernhard Hoetger, complete the street's construction in the style of Brick Expressionism.
- City Hall, Hilversum, North Holland, designed by Willem Marinus Dudok, is completed.
- India Gate in New Delhi is completed.
- Student Union at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, designed by Sven Markelius and Uno Åhrén.
- South Houses, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, designed by Gordon Kaufmann.
- Washington Singer Building on the Streatham Campus of the University of Exeter in England, designed by Vincent Harris.
- New Synagogue, Žilina, Czechoslovakia, designed by Peter Behrens, is completed.
- High and Over, Amersham, one of the first modernist houses in England, designed by Amyas Connell, is completed.
- House for two brothers in Brno, designed by Otto Eisler, is completed.
- Apartment Building at 342, Muntaner Street, Barcelona, designed by Josep Lluís Sert, is completed.
- The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois is demolished.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Edwin Cooper.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Georges Dengler.
Births
- April 23 – Roland Paoletti, British architect
- May 3 – Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer
- May 7 – Ricardo Legorreta, Mexican architect
- July 17 – Edward Cullinan, English architect
- July 23 – Arata Isozaki, Japanese architect
- August 16 – Alessandro Mendini, Italian architect and designer
- October 3 – Denise Scott Brown, Rhodesian-born American architect
Deaths
- March 7 – Theo van Doesburg, Dutch polymath, leader of De Stijl
- July 17 – William Lethaby, English Arts and Crafts architect and designer
- September 1 – Nahum Barnet, Melbourne-based Australian architect
- September 20 – Max Littmann, German architect
- December 3 – Frederick Walters, Scottish architect of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, notable for his Roman Catholic churches
