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{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] --> {{Year nav topic5|1910|architecture}} The year '''1910 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. ==Events== * [[January 21]] – Architect [[Adolf Loos]] delivers the lecture ''[[Ornament and Crime]]'' in [[Vienna]]. * [[April 27]] – [[Futurist]] poet [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]] issues the manifesto ''Contro Venezia passatista'' ("Against Past-loving [[Venice]]") in the [[Piazza San Marco]]. * [[Mary Colter]] is appointed full-time architect for the [[Fred Harvey Company]] in the [[United States]]. ==Buildings and structures== [[File:Casa Milà (1914).jpg|thumb|[[Casa Milà]] in [[Barcelona]], Spain]] [[File:Wien Hietzing, St.-Veit-Gasse 10 - 1.JPG|thumb|[[Steiner House]]]] ===Buildings opened=== * [[January 22]] – [[Flinders Street railway station]] in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]], designed by [[Fawcett and Ashworth]]. * February – [[Birmingham Oratory]] in [[Birmingham]], England, designed by [[Edward Doran Webb]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Buildings of England: Warwickshire|year=1986|url=https://archive.org/details/bestbuildingsofe0000pevs|url-access=registration|authorlink=Nikolaus Pevsner|first=Nikolaus|last=Pevsner}}</ref> * [[May 11]] – [[Pan American Union Building]], [[Washington, D.C.]], designed by [[Paul Philippe Cret]] and [[Albert Kelsey]]. * June – [[Baku Puppet Theatre|Abdulla Shaig Puppet Theatre]] in [[Baku]], [[Azerbaijan]]. * [[July 31]] – [[Split Rock Lighthouse]], Minnesota, designed by Ralph Russell Tinkham. * [[August 5]] – [[Pilgrim Monument]], Boston, Massachusetts, designed by [[Willard T. Sears]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Carpenter|first=Edmund J.|title=The Pilgrims and their Monument|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028816664|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|publisher=Privately printed|year=1911|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028816664/page/n354 265]}}</ref> * [[November 27]] – [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)]], designed by [[McKim, Mead and White]]. ===Buildings completed=== * The [[Renauld Bank]] in [[Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle|Nancy]], designed by [[Émile André]] and [[Paul Charbonnier]]. * The [[Ducret Apartment Building]] in Nancy, designed by André and Charbonnier. * [[Casa Milà]] in [[Barcelona]], designed by [[Antoni Gaudí]]. * [[:File:Looshaus Michaelerplatz.JPG|Goldman & Salatsch Building]] (the "Looshaus"), Michaelerplatz, [[Vienna]], designed by [[Adolf Loos]]. * [[Steiner House]] in Vienna, designed by Adolf Loos. * [[Jacir Palace]] Hotel in Bethlehem. * [[:de:Gereonshaus|Gereonshaus]] in [[Cologne]], designed by [[Carl Moritz (architect)|Carl Moritz]]. * [[National Museum of Finland]], Helsinki, designed by [[Herman Gesellius]], [[Armas Lindgren]] and [[Eliel Saarinen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nba.fi/en/nationalmuseum/history_of_museum_and_building|publisher=National Board of Antiquities|title=History of the National Museum}}</ref> * [[Liberty Tower (Manhattan)]] in New York, designed by [[Henry Ives Cobb]]. * Giesshübel warehouse in [[Zürich]], Switzerland, designed by [[Robert Maillart]]. * Catholic [[St John the Baptist Cathedral, Norwich|church of St John the Baptist, Norwich]], England, to the 1882 design of [[George Gilbert Scott Jr.]] ==Awards== * [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Thomas Graham Jackson]]. * [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: [[:fr:Fernand Janin|Fernand Janin]]. ==Births== * [[May 23]] – Sir [[Hugh Casson]], British architect, interior designer, artist, influential writer and broadcaster (died [[1999 in architecture|1999]]) * [[June 26]] – [[Maciej Nowicki (architect)|Maciej Nowicki]], Polish architect, chief architect of the new Indian city of [[Chandigarh]] (died [[1950 in architecture|1950]]) * [[July 2]] – [[Richard Sheppard (architect)|Richard Sheppard]], English architect specializing in educational buildings (died [[1982 in architecture|1982]]) * [[August 7]] – [[Lucien Hervé]], Hungarian-born architectural photographer (died [[2007 in architecture|2007]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Eliot Noyes]], American architect and industrial designer (died [[1977 in architecture|1977]]) * [[August 20]] – [[Eero Saarinen]], Finnish American architect and industrial designer (died [[1961 in architecture|1961]]), son of [[Eliel Saarinen]] ==Deaths== [[File:Sir Thomas Drew circa 1870.png|thumb|upright|[[Thomas Drew (architect)|Thomas Drew]]]] * [[March 13]] – [[Sir Thomas Drew]], Irish architect (born [[1838 in architecture|1838]]) * [[May 14]] – [[Gaetano Koch]], Italian architect active in Rome (born [[1849 in architecture|1849]]) * [[August 24]] – [[Juste Lisch]], French architect (born [[1828 in architecture|1828]]) ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1910 architecture| ]]
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