The year 1923 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events Vers une architecture by Le Corbusier (later translated into English as Towards a New Architecture) is published. Bauhaus expressionist architecture phase ends. Liebenberg and Kaplan architectural practice established in Minneapolis.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened June 23 – Stockholm City Hall, designed by Ragnar Östberg. December 26 – Ottawa Auditorium, Canada (demolished 1967).
Buildings completed Coedfa (residence), The Close, Llanfairfechan, North Wales, designed by Herbert Luck North. Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Église Notre-Dame du Raincy in France, designed by Auguste Perret. Pershing Square Building in New York, New York, designed by Sloan & Robertson and York and Sawyer.
Awards AIA Gold Medal – Henry Bacon RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John James Burnet Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Baptiste Mathon
Births March 2 – Sam Scorer, English architect (died 2003) June 5 – Yona Friedman, Hungarian born French architect and architectural theorist ("mobile architecture") (died 2020) June 24 – Peter Womersley, British architect (died 1993) June 25 – Harry Seidler, Austrian-born Australian Modernist architect0 (died 2006) September 18 – Peter Smithson, English New Brutalist architect, husband and partner of Alison Smithson (died 2003) September 25 – Leonardo Benevolo, Italian historian of modern architecture (died 2017) December 12 – Richard Gilbert Scott, English architect (died 2017) December 19 – Alexander Cvijanović, Yugoslav/American architect (died 2019) December 25 – Jack Zunz, South African-born structural engineer (died 2018) Eulie Chowdhury, Indian architect (died 1995)
Deaths May 19 – Frank Darling, Canadian architect and promoter of the Beaux-Arts style (born 1850) October 25 – Robert S. Roeschlaub, Colorado architect (born 1843) November 24 – Michel de Klerk, Dutch Amsterdam School architect (born 1884) December 27 – Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer and architect (born 1832)
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