The year 1944 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

• March 9 – St. Nicholas Church, Tallinn, gutted during the bombing of Tallinn in World War II.
• Summer – Ministry of Works (United Kingdom) builds the first demonstration British temporary prefab houses designed for postwar reconstruction (in Northolt and on Millbank in London). ^[1] The temporary wooden Jicwood bungalow is designed by Richard Sheppard in England.
• October – Destruction of Warsaw.
• The Greater London Plan and A Plan for Plymouth are published by Patrick Abercrombie. ^[2]

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Malmö City Theatre, Sweden, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz with Erik Lallerstedt and David Helldén in 1933, is completed.
• Fagersta airspace surveillance tower, Sweden, designed by Cyrillus Johansson, is completed.
• 10050 Cielo Drive (site of the Manson murders in 1969) is built.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Louis Sullivan.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Edward Maufe.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Claude Béraud.

Births

• January 2 – Bryan Avery, English architect (died 2017)
• January 9 – Massimiliano Fuksas, Italian architect
• January 19 – Thom Mayne, American architect
• January 25 – Bernard Tschumi, Swiss-born architect
• April 6 – Peter Murray, English architectural journalist
• April 24 – Maarja Nummert, Estonian architect
• June 1 – Rafael Viñoly, Uruguayan-born architect (died 2023)
• June 14 – Simo Paavilainen, Finnish architect
• July 15 – Stephen A. Lesser, American architect
• August 19 – Adrian Smith, American architect
• September 27 – Jan Utzon, Danish architect
• November 17 – Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
• December 23 – Samuel Mockbee, American architect (died 2001)
• Dick Clark, American architect
• Spencer de Grey, English architect
• David Miller, American architect

Deaths

• January 1 – Sir Edwin Lutyens, English architect (born 1869)
• March 8 – Rudolf Wels, Czech architect, killed in Auschwitz concentration camp (born 1882)
• April 4 – Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect (born 1878)
• April 10 – Henry Price, English architect working in Manchester (born 1867)
• May 8 – Alexander Beer, German architect, died in Theresienstadt concentration camp (born 1873)
• May 26 – Walter Brugmann, Nazi German architect, died in aircraft crash (born 1887)
• September 6 – Clarence Perry, American town planner (born 1872)
• October 7 – P. Morley Horder, English architect (born 1870)
• October 23 – Wilson Eyre, American architect (born 1858)
• November 12 – Samuel Charles Brittingham, Australian architect (born 1860)
• December 4 – Benjamin Wistar Morris, American architect (born 1870)
• December 25 – Henry Budden, Australian architect (born 1871)
• Harry Little, American architect
• Watson Elkinah Reid, Canadian architect (born 1858)

References