1922 in architecture

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.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• March 21 – Rebuilt London Waterloo station with war memorial entrance is officially opened (engineers: J. W. Jacomb-Hood and A. W. Szlumper; architect: J. R. 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.
• 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.
• 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)
• 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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