1937 in architecture
The year 1937 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.Events
Buildings opened
- May 6 – Chelsea Bridge in Pimlico, London, designed by G. Topham Forrest, former head of London County Council's Architect's Department, opened by the Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King.
- May 27 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, longest suspension bridge in the world by the length of central span, designed by Joseph B. Strauss.
- July 18 – Haus der deutschen Kunst in Munich, designed by Paul Troost, opened by Adolf Hitler to display art of the Third Reich.
Buildings completed
- Thousand Islands Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River, linking Canada and the United States.
- Petőfi Bridge, Budapest, Hungary.
- Holy Trinity Church, Sighișoara, Romania, designed by Dumitru Petrescu Gopeş.
- Bethlehem Church, Copenhagen, Denmark, by Kaare Klint after original designs by his father, Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint.
- Church of St Michael and All Angels, Northenden, Manchester, England, designed by Nugent Cachemaille-Day.
- Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride, Amlwch, Wales, designed by Giuseppe Rinvolucri.
- Senate House, designed by Charles Holden.
- Dolphin Square in Pimlico, London, designed by Gordon Jeeves.
- Villa Myrdal, designed by Sven Markelius.
- :File:3 MAPU ST.jpg|3 Mapu Street, White City, Mandatory Palestine, designed by Ben-Ami Shulman.
- St Ann's Court, near Chertsey in England, a modernist circular house designed by Raymond McGrath for Gerald L. Schlesinger and his partner landscape architect Christopher Tunnard.
- Houses in Frognal Close, Hampstead, London, designed by Ernst L. Freud.
- Kensal House in Ladbroke Grove, London, two low-rise blocks of modernist flats for the working class designed by Maxwell Fry.
- Republic pavilion, Barcelona, and Spanish Republican government pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris, both designed by Josep Lluís Sert.
- Club Moderne, Anaconda, Montana, designed by Fred F. Willson, built
- Via della Conciliazione in Rome constructed following demolition of the Piazza Scossacavalli.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Raymond Unwin.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul Jacques Grillo
Births
- February 7 – Daryl Jackson, Australian architect
- April 18 – Jan Kaplický, Czech architect mainly active in UK
- May 9 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
- September 14 – Renzo Piano, Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect
- October 3 – Richard England, Maltese architect
- October 24 – M. Rosaria Piomelli, born Agrisano, Italian-born American architect
- date unknown
- * Kate Macintosh, Scottish-born architect
- * Georgie Wolton, born Cheesman, English architect
- * Yoshio Taniguchi, Japanese architect active in New York
Deaths
- January 10 – Bertie Crewe, English architect
- January 28 – Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooting champion
- February 11 – Walter Burley Griffin, US architect and landscape architect, involved in design of Canberra
- May 9 – Harry Barton, US architect from North Carolina
- August 27 – John Russell Pope, US architect known for his work in Washington, DC.
