Editing 1926 in architecture (section)

==Events==
[[File:Funeral Gaudí.jpg|thumb|[[Antoni Gaudí|Gaudí]]'s funeral]]
* c. February – British [[General Post Office]] K2 [[red telephone box]], designed by [[Giles Gilbert Scott]], is introduced, chiefly in the London area.<ref>{{cite book|first=Neil|last=Johannessen|title=Telephone Boxes|location=Princes Risborough|publisher=Shire Publications|year=1994|isbn=0-7478-0250-5}}</ref>
* April–May – The German Zehner-Ring group of Modernist architects expands to become [[Der Ring]].
* [[June 7]] – While walking along the [[Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes]] in [[Barcelona]], [[Antoni Gaudí]] is struck by a passing tram and knocked unconscious. Delays in receiving medical treatment contribute to his death in hospital a few days later.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ana María|last=Férrin|title=Gaudí, de piedra y fuego|isbn=978-84-932015-0-0|language=Spanish |publisher=Jaraquemada |location=Barcelona|year=2001|page=415}}</ref> On June 12, after a funeral procession through the streets of Barcelona lined by thousands, he is buried in the crypt chapel of his unfinished church of [[Sagrada Família]].
* [[November 27]] – In [[Williamsburg, Virginia]], the restoration of [[Colonial Williamsburg]] begins.
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** The [[Frankfurt kitchen]] is designed by [[Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky]] for [[Ernst May]]'s [[social housing]] project [[New Frankfurt]] in [[Frankfurt]], [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Karen|last=Melching|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/res_cons/conservation/journal/number_53/frankfurt/index.html|title=Frankfurt Kitchen: patina follows function|journal=Conservation Journal|issue=53|year=2006|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091218121255/http://www.vam.ac.uk/res_cons/conservation/journal/number_53/frankfurt/index.html|archivedate=2009-12-18}}</ref>
** The Russian avant-garde magazine ''SA'' is published for the first time.
** Restoration of the Tudor [[Owlpen Manor]] in the [[Cotswolds]] of England by [[Norman Jewson]] is completed.