1910 in architecture

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The year 1910 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Steiner House

Events

• January 21 - Architect Adolf Loos delivers the lecture Ornament and Crime in Vienna.
• April 27 - Futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issues the manifesto Contro Venezia passatista ("Against Past-loving Venice") in the Piazza San Marco.
• Mary Colter is appointed full-time architect for the Fred Harvey Company in the United States.

Buildings opened

• January 22 - Flinders Street railway station in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Fawcett and Ashworth.
• May 11 - Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C., designed by Paul Philippe Cret and Albert Kelsey.
• June - Abdulla Shaig Puppet Theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan.
• November 27 - Pennsylvania Station (New York City), designed by McKim, Mead and White.

Buildings completed

• The Renauld Bank in Nancy, designed by Émile André and Paul Charbonnier.
• The Ducret Apartment Building in Nancy, designed by André and Charbonnier.
• Casa Milà in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí.
• Goldman & Salatsch Building (the "Looshaus"), Michaelerplatz, Vienna, designed by Adolf Loos.
• Steiner House in Vienna, designed by Adolf Loos.

Casa Milà

• Birmingham Oratory in Birmingham, England, designed by Edward Doran Webb.^[1]
• Jacir Palace Hotel in Bethlehem.
• Gereonshaus in Cologne, designed by Carl Moritz.
• National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, designed by Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen.^[2]
• Pilgrim Monument, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.^[3]
• Giesshübel warehouse in Zürich, designed by Robert Maillart.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Thomas Graham Jackson.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Fernand Janin.

Births

Pan American Union Building (photographed in 1943)

• May 23 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect, interior designer, artist, influential writer and broadcaster (died 1999)
• June 26 - Maciej Nowicki, Polish architect, chief architect of the new Indian city of Chandigarh (died 1950)
• July 2 - Richard Sheppard, English architect specializing in educational buildings (died 1982)
• August 12 - Eliot Noyes, American architect and industrial designer (died 1977)
• August 20 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish American architect and industrial designer (died 1961), son of Eliel Saarinen

Deaths

• March 13 - Sir Thomas Drew, Irish architect (born 1838)
• May 14 - Gaetano Koch, Italian architect active in Rome (born 1849)
• August 24 - Juste Lisch, French architect (born 1828)

References

1. Pevsner, Nikolaus. The Buildings of England: Warwickshire.
2. "History of the National Museum". National Board of Antiquities.
3. Carpenter, Edmund J. (1911). The Pilgrims and their Monument. Cambridge, MA: Privately printed. p. 265.