Editing 1923 in architecture

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The year '''1923 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Events==
* ''[[Toward an Architecture|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==
[[File:Stockholms stadshus september 2011.jpg|thumb|[[Stockholm City Hall]], Sweden]]
===Buildings opened===
*[[June 23]] – [[Stockholm City Hall]], designed by [[Ragnar Östberg]].
*[[December 26]] – [[Ottawa Auditorium]], Canada<ref>{{cite book |title=Howie Morenz: Hockey's First Superstar|last=Robinson |first=Dean |year=1982 |isbn=0-919822-69-X |page=52|publisher=Boston Mills Press }}</ref> (demolished 1967).

===Buildings completed===
* Coedfa (residence), The Close, [[Llanfairfechan]], North Wales, designed by Herbert Luck North.<ref>{{cite book|author=Twentieth Century Society|title=100 Houses 100 Years|publisher=Batsford|location=London|year=2017|isbn=978-1-84994-437-3}}</ref>
* [[Imperial Hotel, Tokyo#Second Imperial Hotel 1923–1968|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]]
*[[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[John James Burnet]]
*[[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: [[Jean-Baptiste Mathon]]

==Births==
*[[March 2]] – [[Sam Scorer]], English architect (died [[2003 in architecture|2003]])
*[[June 5]] – [[Yona Friedman]], Hungarian born French architect and architectural theorist ("mobile architecture") (died [[2020 in architecture|2020]])
*[[June 24]] – [[Peter Womersley]], British architect (died [[1993 in architecture|1993]])
*[[June 25]] – [[Harry Seidler]], Austrian-born Australian Modernist architect<ref>0{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Blake|title=Architecture for the New World: The Work of Harry Seidler|location=Sydney|year=1973|isbn=3-7828-1459-2}}</ref> (died [[2006 in architecture|2006]])
*[[September 18]] – [[Alison and Peter Smithson|Peter Smithson]], English [[New Brutalism|New Brutalist]] architect, husband and partner of [[Alison Smithson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://designmuseum.org/design/alison-peter-smithson |title=Alison and Peter Smithson|publisher=[[Design Museum]]|location=London|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124011148/http://designmuseum.org/design/alison-peter-smithson|archivedate=2010-11-24}}</ref> (died [[2003 in architecture|2003]])
*[[September 25]] – [[Leonardo Benevolo]], Italian historian of modern architecture (died [[2017 in architecture|2017]])
*[[December 12]] – [[Richard Gilbert Scott]], English architect (died [[2017 in architecture|2017]])
*December 19 – [[Alexander Cvijanović]], Yugoslav/American architect (died [[2019 in architecture|2019]])
*[[December 25]] – [[Jack Zunz]], South African-born structural engineer (died [[2018 in architecture|2018]])
*[[Eulie Chowdhury]], Indian architect (died [[1995 in architecture|1995]])

==Deaths==
*[[May 19]] – [[Frank Darling (architect)|Frank Darling]], Canadian architect and promoter of the Beaux-Arts style (born [[1850 in architecture|1850]])
*[[October 25]] – [[Robert S. Roeschlaub]], Colorado architect (born [[1843 in architecture|1843]])
*[[November 24]] – [[Michel de Klerk]], Dutch [[Amsterdam School]] architect (born [[1884 in architecture|1884]])
*[[December 27]] – [[Gustave Eiffel]], French civil engineer and architect (born [[1832 in architecture|1832]])

==References==
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