The year 1944 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings
Awards
Births
- January 2 â Bryan Avery, English architect (died 2017)
- January 9 â Massimiliano Fuksas, Italian architect
- January 19 â Thom Mayne, American architect
- January 25 â Bernard Tschumi, Swiss-born architect
- April 6 â Peter Murray, English architectural journalist
- April 24 â Maarja Nummert, Estonian architect
- June 1 â Rafael Viñoly, Uruguayan-born architect (died 2023)
- June 14 â Simo Paavilainen, Finnish architect
- July 15 â Stephen A. Lesser, American architect
- August 19 â Adrian Smith, American architect
- September 27 â Jan Utzon, Danish architect
- November 17 â Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
- December 23 â Samuel Mockbee, American architect (died 2001)
- Dick Clark, American architect
- Spencer de Grey, English architect
- David Miller, American architect
Deaths
- January 1 â Sir Edwin Lutyens, English architect (born 1869)
- March 8 â Rudolf Wels, Czech architect, killed in Auschwitz concentration camp (born 1882)
- April 4 â Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect (born 1878)
- April 10 â Henry Price, English architect working in Manchester (born 1867)
- May 8 â Alexander Beer, German architect, died in Theresienstadt concentration camp (born 1873)
- May 26 â Walter Brugmann, Nazi German architect, died in aircraft crash (born 1887)
- September 6 â Clarence Perry, American town planner (born 1872)
- October 7 â P. Morley Horder, English architect (born 1870)
- October 23 â Wilson Eyre, American architect (born 1858)
- November 12 â Samuel Charles Brittingham, Australian architect (born 1860)
- December 4 â Benjamin Wistar Morris, American architect (born 1870)
- December 25 â Henry Budden, Australian architect (born 1871)
- Harry Little, American architect
- Watson Elkinah Reid, Canadian architect (born 1858)
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