Editing 1938 in architecture

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The year '''1938 in architecture''' involved some significant events.

==Events==
* First woman elected to [[Royal Institute of British Architects]], Josephine Miller.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1938}}
===Buildings opened===
* July – [[Saltdean Lido]] and Ocean Hotel, [[Saltdean]], East Sussex, England, both designed by [[R.W.H. Jones]].
* [[October 22]] – [[Oxford Playhouse]], Oxford, England, designed by [[Edward Maufe]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire|last1=Sherwood|first1=Jennifer |last2=Pevsner|first2=Nikolaus|authorlink2=Nikolaus Pevsner|year=1974|publisher=[[Penguin Books]]|page=324|isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref>
* [[October 29]] – [[City Hall, Norwich]], England, designed by [[Charles Holloway James|C. H. James]] and [[Stephen Rowland Pierce|S. R. Pierce]].
* [[November 14]] – [[Lions Gate Bridge]] in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]].

===Buildings completed===
[[File:Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts Treasure Island CA1.jpg|thumb|[[Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island|Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, San Francisco]]]]
[[File:Walter Gropius photo Gropius house Lincoln MA.jpg|thumb|[[Gropius House]] in [[Lincoln, Massachusetts]], USA]]
* The [[Reich Chancellery]] in [[Berlin]], designed by [[Albert Speer]] (rebuilt).
* [[Great Mosque of Asmara]] in [[Italian Eritrea]], designed by Guido Ferrazza.
* [[Church of the Epiphany, Gipton]], Leeds, England, designed by [[Nugent Cachemaille-Day]].
* [[Metro Theatre (Toronto)]], designed by Kaplan and Sprachman.
* [[Finsbury Health Centre]], London, designed by [[Berthold Lubetkin]] and the [[Tecton Group]].
* Metropolitan Water Board Laboratories, London, designed by [[Howard Robertson (architect)|Howard Robertson]].
* [[Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island]], San Francisco Bay, California, USA, designed by [[George W. Kelham]] and William Peyton Day.
* [[Palace of Justice (Peru)|Palace of Justice]], Lima, Peru.
* [[:File:PT MUNICIPALIDAD.jpg|City Hall]], [[Mar del Plata]], Argentina, designed by [[Alejandro Bustillo]].
* [[Manchester Town Hall Extension]], England, designed by [[Vincent Harris]] in [[1927 in architecture|1927]].
* [[São Bento Palace]], Lisbon, Portugal.
* [[Kröller-Müller Museum]], [[Otterlo]], Netherlands, designed by [[Henry van de Velde]].
* [[Helsinki Olympic Stadium]], Finland, designed by [[Yrjö Lindegren]] and Toivo Jäntti.
* Brackenfell (house), [[Brampton, Carlisle]], England, designed by [[Leslie Martin]] and [[Sadie Speight]].<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>
* [[The Homewood]] (house) near [[Esher]], Surrey, England, designed by [[Patrick Gwynne]] (for his parents).
* [[Charters House]], Berkshire, England, designed by [[Adie, Button and Partners]].
* [[Hamstone House]], St George's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey, designed by Ian Forbes.
* [[Middleton Park, Oxfordshire]], England, the last great country house designed by [[Edwin Lutyens]] (with his son Robert).
* Houses in Hampshire, Sussex and at [[Eton, Berkshire]] in England by [[Marcel Breuer]] and [[F. R. S. Yorke]].
* [[Gropius House]], [[Lincoln, Massachusetts]], designed by [[Walter Gropius]] with Marcel Breuer.
* [[Belvedere Court]] (apartments) in [[East Finchley]], London, designed by [[Ernst L. Freud]].
* [[Josephine M. Hagerty House]], [[Cohasset, Massachusetts]], designed by Walter Gropius with Marcel Breuer.
* [[Luma Tower]], built as British Luma Co-Operative Electric Lamp factory, [[Glasgow]], designed by Cornelius Armour.
* [[Fiat Tagliero Building]], Asmara, Italian Eritrea, designed by [[Giuseppe Pettazzi]].

==Other==
* Construction work begins on
** [[Mark Keppel High School]] in [[Alhambra, California]], designed by Marston & Maybury.
** [[Council House, Bristol]], England, designed by [[Vincent Harris]].

==Publications==
* [[Lewis Mumford]] – ''The Culture of Cities''

==Awards==
* [[AIA Gold Medal]] – [[Paul Philippe Cret]]
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Ivar Tengbom]]
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: [[Henry Bernard (architect)|Henry Bernard]]

==Births==
* [[April 16]] – [[Wolf Hilbertz]], German-born futurist architect, inventor and marine scientist ([[2007 in architecture#Deaths|died 2007]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Terry Farrell (architect)|Terry Farrell]], English architect, designer of the [[KK100]] and [[SIS Building]]
* [[July 10]] – [[Paul Andreu]], French airport architect ([[2018 in architecture#Deaths|died 2018]])
* [[July 14]] – [[Moshe Safdie]], Israeli/Canadian architect, urban designer, educator, theorist and author
* [[September 3]] – [[Richard MacCormac]], British architect ([[2014 in architecture#Deaths|died 2014]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Andrea Branzi]], Italian architect and designer
* [[December 30]] – [[Susan Maxman]], née Abel, American architect
[[File:Theodor-fischer-1933.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Theodor Fischer]]]]

==Deaths==
* [[February 25]] – [[W. D. Caroe|W. D. Caröe]], English-born ecclesiastical architect (born [[1857 in architecture|1857]])
* [[July 2]] – [[John James Burnet]], Scottish architect (born 1857)
* [[October 30]] – [[Charles Klauder]], American architect (born [[1872 in architecture|1872]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Bruno Taut]], German-born architect and urban planner (born [[1880 in architecture|1880]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Theodor Fischer]], German architect (born [[1862 in architecture|1862]])

==References==
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