The year 1922 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events Construction of Böttcherstraße in Bremen, Germany, in the Brick Expressionist style, begins. The proposed construction of a Monument to the Third International, designed by Vladimir Tatlin, is cancelled.Honour, H. and Fleming, J. (2009) A World History of Art. 7th edn. London: Laurence King Publishing, p. 819.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
March 21 – Rebuilt London Waterloo station with war memorial entrance is officially opened (engineers: John Wykeham Jacomb-Hood and Alfred W. Szlumper; architect: James Robb Scott). May 30 – Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., United States is dedicated by William H. Taft, in the presence of Abraham Lincoln's son, 79-year-old Robert Todd Lincoln. p. 5. June 9 – Spalding War Memorial in England, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, is dedicated. October 14 – Gerrards Cross Memorial Building in England, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, is dedicated. November 26 – Rochdale Cenotaph in England, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, is dedicated.
Buildings completed
Estonian Constituent Assembly (Riigikogu) building in Toompea Castle, designed by Eugen Habermann and Herbert Johanson. Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria (Roman Catholic) Droitwich Spa, England, by Frank B. Peacock. Antiguo Casino de Ponce, Puerto Rico, by Agustin Camilo Gonzalez.Historia del Antiguo Casino de Ponce. Government of the Municipality of Ponce. p.1 (14 pages). Available from the Casino's walk-in office. Phitsanulok Mansion in Bangkok, by Mario Tamagno. Shabolovka tower in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, by Vladimir Shukhov. Wolseley Motors showrooms, 160 Piccadilly, London, by W. Curtis Green. Wrigley Building in Chicago, Illinois, by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White. Shukhov Tower in Moscow, by Vladimir Shukhov.
Awards AIA Gold Medal – Victor Laloux RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Thomas Hastings Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Robert Giroud.
Births January 4 – Mart Port, Estonian architect (died 2012) March 14 – Colin St John Wilson, English architect (died 2007) April 13 – Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (died 2002)"Valve Pormeister 13. IV 1922 – 27. X 2002" , Sirp.ee. Retrieved 14 February 2012. May 29 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer, music theorist and architect-engineer (died 2001) June 14 – Kevin Roche, Irish-born American Pritzker Prize-winning architect (died 2019) Bill Howell, British architect (died 1974)
Deaths
April 18 – Hjalmar Welhaven, Norwegian architect, palace manager and sportsman (born 1850) July 21 – Eugène Vallin, French architect, furniture designer and manufacturer (born 1856) September 19 – Benjamin D. Price, American architect known principally for his catalogue sales of plans for churches (born 1845) December 4 – Hermann Baagøe Storck, Danish architect and heraldist (born 1839) December 8 – Ernest George, English architect and painter (born 1839) William Henry Miller, American architect based in Ithaca, New York (born 1848)
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