Editing 1930 in architecture

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The year '''1930 in architecture''' involved some significant events.

==Events==
* May–September – [[Stockholm Exhibition (1930)|Stockholm Exhibition]] (''Stockholmsutställningen'') staged by the city of [[Stockholm]] and the ''Svenska Slöjdföreningen'' ("Swedish Society of Craft and Design") under the leadership of Gregor Paulsson in the [[Djurgården]], showcasing [[Functionalism (architecture)|Functionalism]] (''Funkis'') and the [[International Style (architecture)|International Style]]. The lead architects are [[Gunnar Asplund]] (who designs the ''Paradiset'' restaurant) and [[Sigurd Lewerentz]] (who also this year designs a warehouse for Philips in the city); architects involved in the housing exhibition include [[Sven Markelius]], Paul Hedqvist, Nils Ahrbom, Helge Zimdal and [[Uno Åhrén]].
* [[Vanessa Bell]] and [[Duncan Grant]] complete the decoration of the dining room for [[Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington|Dorothy Wellesley]] at Penns-in-the-Rocks, [[Withyham]], England.
* [[John Betjeman]] is given an editorial post on the ''[[Architectural Review]]'' (London).

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1930}}
===Opened===
* [[February 22]] – [[Loew's 175th Street Theatre]] on [[Manhattan]], designed by [[Thomas W. Lamb]] with interiors by the [[Rambusch Decorating Company]].
* [[March 22]] – [[Le Touret Memorial]], France.
* [[April 8]] – [[Brisbane City Hall]], Brisbane, Australia.
* [[June 9]] – The [[Chicago Board of Trade Building]], designed by [[Holabird & Roche]].
* [[June 17]] – [[:de:Erphokirche|Erphokirche]] in [[Münster]], designed by [[Carl Moritz (architect)|Carl Moritz]].
* [[June 21]] – [[Hus' House (Vršovice)]] church and community centre in [[Prague]], designed by Karel Truksa and [[Pavel Janák]].
* [[August 18]] – [[Salginatobel Bridge]] in Switzerland, designed by [[Robert Maillart]].

===Completed===
[[File:Milenium Plaza view from 36 floor - panoramio.jpg|thumb|The [[Chrysler Building]] in [[New York City]], USA]]
[[File:Drogo-wyrd-06.jpg|thumb|[[Castle Drogo]] in [[Devon]], England]]
* April – [[40 Wall Street]] (at this time the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building), briefly the tallest building in the world.
* [[May 20]] – [[Chrysler Building]] in [[New York City|New York]], designed by [[William van Alen]], succeeds the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building as the tallest building in the world and the [[Eiffel Tower]] as the tallest structure. It remains the world's tallest steel-supported brick building.
* [[July 3]] – [[Grace Building (Sydney)|Grace Building]], Sydney, Australia.<ref>[http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/society_art/temples/grace.html New South Wales State Library: Grace Building] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111101706/http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/society_art/temples/grace.html |date=2014-01-11 }}. Retrieved 2013-04-21.</ref>
* [[Guenete Leul Palace]], Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, built for Emperor [[Haile Selassie]].
* [[Palazzo Gualino]], [[Turin]], Italy, designed by [[Giuseppe Pagano]] and [[Gino Levi-Montalcini]].
* [[IG Farben Building]], Frankfurt am Main, Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hausarbeiten.de/faecher/hausarbeit/sow/20840.html|title=Das I.G. Farbenhaus – Ein Bau der, deutsche Geschichte widerspiegelt (The IG Farben Building – A building that reflects German History)|last=Linke|first=Vera|date=2002-03-02|work=Transcript of lecture given in Frankfurt Archive No.K20840|publisher=Hausarbeiten.de|language=German}}</ref>
* [[Crawford's Advertising Agency]], [[:File:233 High Holborn (geograph 4086453).jpg|233]] [[High Holborn]], London, designed by [[Frederick Etchells]] with Herbert A. Welch.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=John Betjeman|first=John|last=Betjeman|title=A Pictorial History of English Architecture|location=Harmondsworth|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1974|isbn=0-14-00-3824-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/pictorialhistory0000betj_x5m7/page/100 100]|url=https://archive.org/details/pictorialhistory0000betj_x5m7/page/100}}</ref>
* [[Thames House]] on Millbank, [[City of Westminster|Westminster]], London, designed by [[Frank Baines]].
* Station reconstructions on [[Berlin U-Bahn]], designed by [[Alfred Grenander]].
* ''[[Hufeisensiedlung]]'' (Horseshoe estate), one of the [[Berlin Modernism Housing Estates]] in [[Weimar Germany]], designed by [[Bruno Taut]] and [[Martin Wagner (architect)|Martin Wagner]].
* [[Karl-Marx-Hof]] in [[Vienna]], designed by [[Karl Ehn]], opens, a half-mile-wide (1100 [[metre|m]]) apartment building.
* The [[Tower City Center|Terminal Tower]] complex in [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], designed by [[Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White]].
* Apartments for social housing in Page Street, [[City of Westminster|Westminster]], designed by Sir [[Edwin Lutyens]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Page Street|url=http://housingprototypes.org/project?File_No=GB017|work=Housing Prototypes|accessdate=2012-12-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916123622/http://housingprototypes.org/project?File_No=GB017|archive-date=2012-09-16|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Castle Drogo]], a country house in [[Devon]], England designed by [[Edwin Lutyens]].
* [[Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva]] in [[Lublin]], [[Poland]].
* [[Villa Tugendhat]] in [[Brno]], [[Czechoslovakia]], designed by [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]].

==Awards==
* [[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Architecture|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal]] – [[Charles A. Platt]].
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Percy Worthington|Percy Scott Worthington]].

==Births==
[[File:Wilhelm Holzbauer 1981b.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Wilhelm Holzbauer]]]]
* [[June 16]] – [[Manfredi Nicoletti]], Italian architect, pioneer of [[urban ecosystem]]s (d. [[2017 in architecture|2017]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Jan Hoogstad]], Dutch architect (d. [[2018 in architecture|2018]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Eva Vecsei]], Hungarian-Canadian architect
* [[September 1]] – [[Charles Correa]], Indian architect, planner and activist (d. [[2015 in architecture|2015]])
* [[September 3]] - [[Wilhelm Holzbauer]], Austrian architecture (d. [[2019 in architecture|2019]])
* [[September 20]] -  [[Stanley Tigerman]], American architect, theorist, and designer (d. [[2019 in architecture|2019]])
* [[October 23]] – [[John Rauch (architect)|John Rauch]], American architect (d. [[2022 in architecture|2022]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/john-rauch-obituary-architect-philadelphia-20220823.html |title=John K. Rauch, celebrated architect and cofounder of Venturi & Rauch, has died at 91 |first=Gary |last=Miles |date=August 24, 2022 |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |access-date= February 23, 2023}}</ref>

==Deaths==
* [[April 12]] – [[Karl Lindahl (architect)|Karl Lindahl]], Finnish architect (born [[1874 in architecture|1874]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood]], Russian architect (born [[1867 in architecture|1867]])
* [[August 21]] – Sir [[Aston Webb]], English architect (born [[1849 in architecture|1849]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Sydney Mitchell]], Scottish architect (born [[1856 in architecture|1856]])
* [[December 1]] – [[Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint]], Danish architect, designer, painter and architectural theorist (born [[1853 in architecture|1853]])
* [[Robert Worley (architect)|Robert Worley]], English architect (born [[1850 in architecture|1850]])

==References==
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