The year 1937 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
Buildings completed
- Thousand Islands Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River, linking Canada and the United States.
- PetÃ
Âfi Bridge, Budapest, Hungary.
- Holy Trinity Church, SighiÃÂoara, Romania, designed by Dumitru Petrescu GopeÃ
Â.
- Bethlehem Church, Copenhagen, Denmark, by Kaare Klint after original designs by his father, Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (died 1930).
- 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 (University of London), designed by Charles Holden.
- Dolphin Square in Pimlico, London, designed by Gordon Jeeves.
- Villa Myrdal, designed by Sven Markelius.
- , White City (Tel Aviv), 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 LluÃÂs Sert.
- Club Moderne, Anaconda, Montana, designed by Fred F. Willson, built.
- Via della Conciliazione in Rome constructed following demolition of the Piazza Scossacavalli.
Awards
Births
- February 7 â Daryl Jackson, Australian architect (died 2026)
- April 18 â Jan Kaplický, Czech architect mainly active in UK (died 2009)
- May 9 â Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
- September 14 â Renzo Piano, Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect
- October 3 â Richard England, Maltese architect
- October 24 â M. Rosaria Piomelli, born Agrisano, Italian-born American architect
- December 7 â Ron Labinski, American stadium architect (died 2023)
- date unknown
- Kate Macintosh, Scottish-born architect
- Georgie Wolton, born Cheesman, English architect
- Yoshio Taniguchi, Japanese architect active in New York
Deaths
References