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词条 1911 in architecture
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  1. Events

  2. Buildings opened

  3. Buildings completed

  4. Awards

  5. Births

  6. Deaths

  7. References

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The year 1911 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

  • March 25 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire shows up the need for improved safety standards in New York City buildings.
  • April 4 – Foundation stone of Castle Drogo, a country house in Devon, England designed by Edwin Lutyens, laid; it will not be completed until 1930.
  • May 23 – The competition to design Canberra, Australia's new capital, is won by American architect Walter Burley Griffin. In the same year, Griffin marries fellow architect Marion Lucy Mahony.

Buildings opened

  • May 23 – New York Public Library Main Branch, designed by Carrère and Hastings.
  • September 12 – Theatro Municipal (São Paulo), designed by Ramos de Azevedo.
  • c. September – Altare della Patria (Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II) in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi (died 1905) in 1884 inaugurated; it will not be completed until 1925.

Buildings completed

  • Brasserie Excelsior and Angleterre Hotel in Nancy, France, designed by Lucien Weissenburger and Alexander Mienville, with ironwork and interiors by Louis Majorelle and stained glass by Jacques Gruber.{{fact|date=May 2014}}
  • Fagus Factory at Alfeld an der Leine, designed by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright builds his Taliesin house and studio in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
  • Horwood House in Buckinghamshire, England, designed by Detmar Blow, is completed.
  • King Edward Building for the General Post Office (United Kingdom) in the City of London, designed by Henry Tanner, an early use of Hennebique reinforced concrete.[1]
  • Eagle Insurance Building, Manchester, England, designed by Charles Heathcote.
  • New City Hall (Prague), designed by Osvald Polívka.
  • Berlin-Pankow station, designed by Karl Cornelius and Ernst Schwartz.
  • Monroe Street Bridge in Spokane, Washington.

Awards

  • AIA Gold Medal – George Browne Post.
  • Royal Gold Medal – Wilhelm Dorpfeld.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: René Mirland.

Births

  • March 24 – Jane Drew, English modernist architect and town planner (died 1996)[2]
  • July 16 – John Lautner, American architect (died 1994)
  • December – Tom Ellis, English architect (died 1988)
  • David Roberts, British architect (died 1982)

Deaths

  • November 15 – Philip Gengembre Hubert, French-born New York architect (born 1830)
  • Adolf Eichler, German architect working in Baku (suicide; born 1869)

References

1. ^{{cite book|first=Julian|last=Osley|title=Built for Service: Post Office Architecture|location=London|publisher=British Postal Museum & Archive|year=2010|isbn=978-0-9553569-3-3|pages=22–23}}
2. ^{{cite book|author1=Flower, Sile|author2=Macfarlane, Jean |author3=Plant, Ruth|title=Jane B. Drew, architect: A tribute from her colleagues and friends for her 75th birthday 24 March 1986|publisher=Bristol Centre for the Advancement of Architecture|year=1986|isbn=0-9510759-0-X}}

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