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Overview of the events of 1932 in architecture
The year 1932 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
International Style by
Philip Johnson and
Henry-Russell Hitchcock is published.
The International Exhibition of Modern Architecture at the
Museum of Modern Art in
New York spreads the
International Style .
John Wiley & Sons publishes Architectural Graphic Standards by Charles George Ramsey (1884–1963) and Harold Reeve Sleeper, the first book to present the accepted architectural practices of the time in a clear and accessible graphic form.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
Sydney Harbour Bridge , Australia
Sheffield City Hall , Yorkshire, England
Narkomfin building in
Moscow , Russia
March 19 –
Sydney Harbour Bridge , designed by
John Bradfield (engineer) , is opened in
Sydney , Australia.
April 23 – New
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at
Stratford-upon-Avon , designed by
Elisabeth Scott , is opened, becoming the first important work erected in the United Kingdom by a woman architect.
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July 19 –
Lambeth Bridge , London, designed by engineer Sir
George Humphreys and architects Sir
Reginald Blomfield and
G. Topham Forrest .
August 1 –
Thiepval Memorial , designed by Sir
Edwin Lutyens , is inaugurated in the
Somme (France).
August 7 –
Douaumont ossuary , designed by
Léon Azéma to house the bones of at least 130,000 unidentified soldiers of both sides who died in the
Battle of Verdun .
September 19 –
Arnos Grove tube station , London, designed by
Charles Holden .
September 22 –
Sheffield City Hall , Yorkshire, England, designed by
Vincent Harris in
1920 .
November 16 –
Parliament Buildings (Northern Ireland) ,
Belfast , designed by Sir
Arnold Thornely .
November 25 –
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Harbin , China.
November 27 –
Bixby Creek Bridge at
Big Sur , California, designed by C. H. Purcell and F. W. Panhorst.
Other new buildings
Loews Philadelphia Hotel in
Center City Philadelphia , designed by
George Howe and
William Lescaze , the first
International Style
skyscraper in the United States.
Leopoldine-Glöckel-yard (residence), Vienna, Austria, designed by
Josef Frank .
High Cross House,
Dartington Hall , Devon, England, designed by
William Lescaze .
Deneke Building at
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford , England, designed by
Giles Gilbert Scott .
Alameda Theatre (Alameda, California) , United States, designed by
Timothy L. Pflueger .
Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord in
Prague , designed by
Jože Plečnik .
Catholic Church of St Engelbert ,
Cologne , Germany, designed by
Dominikus Böhm .
The
Daily Express Building, London , designed by Sir
Owen Williams .
The
Hoover Building on the
Western Avenue in
Perivale , West London, designed by
Wallis, Gilbert and Partners in
Art Deco style.
Maison de Verre , Paris, France, by
Pierre Chareau ,
Bernard Bijvoet and
Louis Dalbet .
Paimio Sanatorium in
Finland , designed by
Alvar Aalto .
Unilever House in the
City of London , designed by James Lomax-Simpson of
Unilever with
Sir John Burnet and
Thomas S. Tait of Sir John Burnet and Partners.
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Immeuble Clarté apartment building in
Geneva , designed by
Le Corbusier and his cousin,
Pierre Jeanneret .
Narkomfin building (collective apartments) in Moscow, designed by
Moisei Ginzburg with Ignaty Milinis in 1928.
Harnischmacher House in
Wiesbaden , Germany, designed by
Marcel Breuer .
Wohnbedarf furniture stores in Switzerland, designed by Marcel Breuer.
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex , Shaft 12, Schacht Albert Vögler , Germany, designed by
Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer.
Sol Wurtzel House , Bel Air, Los Angeles, designed by
Wallace Neff .
Awards
Herman Hertzberger
Births
Deaths
References