Editing 1926 in architecture

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The year '''1926 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==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.

==Buildings and structures==
[[File:Tooting Bec stn west entrance.JPG|thumb|[[Tooting Bec tube station|Tooting Bec station]]]]

===Buildings opened===
* [[May 13]] – [[Hercilio Luz Bridge]], Florianopolis, Brazil, designed by [[David B. Steinman|Robinson & Steinman]].
* [[September 13]] – [[Clapham South tube station|Clapham South]], [[Tooting Bec tube station|Tooting Bec]], [[Tooting Broadway tube station|Tooting Broadway]], [[Colliers Wood tube station|Colliers Wood]], [[South Wimbledon tube station|South Wimbledon]] and [[Morden tube station]]s, London, designed by [[Charles Holden]] (also [[Balham station#London Underground station|Balham]], opened December 6).
* [[October 3]] – [[City Methodist Church (Gary, Indiana)]], designed by Lowe and Bollenbacher.
* [[November 11]] – [[Northampton War Memorial]], designed by [[Edwin Lutyens]], unveiled in England.
* [[December 4]] – [[Bauhaus Dessau building]], designed by [[Walter Gropius]], opened in [[Dessau]], Germany.

===Buildings completed===
* [[Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc]], designed by Hubert Aust
* [[:File:The English Martyrs, Reading - geograph.org.uk - 1536208.jpg|Church of The English Martyrs]] (Roman Catholic), [[Reading, Berkshire]], England, designed by Wilfred C. Mangan
* [[Southwestern Bell Building]], [[downtown St. Louis]], Missouri, USA, designed by [[Mauran, Russell & Crowell]] with [[I.R. Timlin]]
* [[Sourdough Inn]], Fort Yukon, Alaska, USA
* Remodeling of Twin Peaks, 102 Bedford Street, [[Greenwich Village]], New York City, USA, by Clifford Reed Daily
* [[900 Stewart Avenue (Ithaca, New York)]], USA
* New Ways (house for [[Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke]]), 508 Wellingborough Road, [[Northampton]], England, designed by [[Peter Behrens]], "a pioneer of modern architecture in Britain"<ref>{{cite book|author=The Twentieth Century Society|author-link=The Twentieth Century Society|title=100 Houses 100 Years|location=London|publisher=Batsford|year=2017|isbn=978-1-84994-437-3|chapter=1926}}</ref>
* [[Villa Wolf]] in [[Gubin, Poland]], designed by [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]]

==Awards==
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Ragnar Ostberg]].
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: Jean-Baptiste Hourlier.

==Births==
* [[21 January]] – [[Roger Taillibert]], French architect (died [[2019 in architecture|2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=H1QxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-6EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3067,4136899&dq=roger+taillibert&hl=en|title=Quebec to take over Games' contracts}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cyberpresse.ca/arts/livres/biographies-et-recits/201008/17/01-4307126-roger-taillibert-publie-ses-memoires.php|title=Roger Taillibert publie ses mémoires}}</ref>
* [[8 April]] – [[Henry N. Cobb]], American architect (died [[2020 in architecture|2020]])
* [[15 April]] – [[Norma Merrick Sklarek]], African American architect (died [[2012 in architecture|2012]])
* [[22 April]] – [[James Stirling (architect)|James Stirling]], British architect (died [[1992 in architecture|1992]])
* [[18 July]] – [[Carlo Aymonino]], Italian architect and urban planner (died [[2010 in architecture|2010]])
* [[12 October]] – [[César Pelli]], Argentine-born architect (died [[2019 in architecture|2019]])
* [[6 December]] - [[Rifat Chadirji]], Iraqi architect (died [[2020 in architecture|2020]])

==Deaths==
[[File:Antoni Gaudi 1878.jpg|thumb|[[Antoni Gaudí]]]]
* [[10 June]] – [[Antoni Gaudí]], Spanish architect, exponent of [[Catalan Modernism]] (born [[1852 in architecture|1852]])
* [[7 July]] – [[Fyodor Schechtel]], Russian architect, graphic artist and stage designer (born [[1859 in architecture#Births|1859]])

==References==
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