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1841 In Architecture
The year 1841 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * April 13 – Original Semperoper in Dresden, designed by Gottfried Semper, opened. * September 2 – Leeds Parish Church reconsecrated after reconstruction. * Pori Old Town Hall in Finland, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, completed. Publications * English architect Augustus Pugin publishes an article on English parish churches in the ''Dublin Review'' (London Catholic periodical); two lectures on ''The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture'' and a revised edition of his 1836 book ''Contrasts''. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Alexis Paccard. Births * February 7 – Auguste Choisy, French architect (died 1909) * July – Richard Carpenter, English architect (died 1893) * July 10 – John Belcher, English architect (died 1913) * July 17 – John Oldrid Scott, English architect (died 1913) * July 13 – Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (died 1918) * Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 In Architecture
The year 1913 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures *Work on Gartenstadt Falkenberg (''Tuschkastensiedlung'', "Paintbox Estate") in Bohnsdorf, earliest of the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates (''Siedlungen der Berliner Moderne''), begins to a design by Bruno Taut. Buildings * February 1 – Grand Central Terminal, rebuilt, re-opens in New York City, United States. * April 24 – The Woolworth Building opens in New York City, United States, designed by Cass Gilbert; the tallest building in the world at this date (1913 until 1930). * May 20 – Centennial Hall in Breslau (Wrocław), designed by Max Berg. * May 26 – Campbeltown Picture House (cinema) opens in Scotland, designed by Albert V. Gardner. * May 31 – The Carol I Mosque (today known as the Grand Mosque of Constanța) in Constanța, Romania, designed by George Constantinescu, is inaugurated. * July 20 – New Town Hall (Hanover), designed by Hermann Eggert and Gustav Halmhuber, op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1841 Works
Events January–March * January 20 – Charles Elliot of the United Kingdom, and Qishan of the Qing dynasty, agree to the Convention of Chuenpi. * January 26 – Britain occupies Hong Kong. Later in the year, the first census of the island records a population of about 7,500. * January 27 – The active volcano Mount Erebus in Antarctica is discovered, and named by James Clark Ross. * January 28 – Ross discovers the "Victoria Barrier", later known as the Ross Ice Shelf. On the same voyage, he discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Terror. * January 30 – A fire ruins and destroys two-thirds of the villa (modern-day city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. * February 4 – First known reference to Groundhog Day in North America, in the diary of a James Morris. * February 10 – The Act of Union (''British North America Act'', 1840) is proclaimed in Canada. * February 11 – The two colonies of the Canadas are merged, into the United Province of Canada. * February 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1772 In Architecture
The year 1772 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * January 27 – The Pantheon, London, designed by James Wyatt, opens to the public (demolished 1937). Buildings and structures Buildings completed * Adelphi Buildings, London, designed by Robert Adam and his brothers. * Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (''Basilika Vierzehnheiligen'') in Bavaria. * Cathedral of Hajdúdorog, Hungary.Sz. Kürti, Katalin (1989). Hajdúdorog, Görög Katolikus Székesegyház; a Tájak Korok Múzeumok Kiskönyvtára c. sorozat 329. száma. Veszprém: TKM Egyesület. , p. 4–5. * Tomb of Mian Ghulam Kalhoro in Hyderabad, Sindh, consecrated. * Dragon House (Sanssouci) in Potsdam, by command of King Frederick the Great. * Old Stone Fort (Schoharie, New York), built as a Reformed Dutch church. * Brick Market, Newport, Rhode Island, designed by Peter Harrison (begun 1762). Births * February 16 – Friedrich Gilly, German architect, son of Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Foulston
John Foulston (1772 – 30 December 1841) was an English architect who was a pupil of Thomas Hardwick and set up a practice in London in 1796.Peter Leach, ''Foulston, John (1772–1841)'', rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Online at http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37425 (subscription required). Accessed 17 May 2008. In 1810 he won a competition to design the Royal Hotel and Theatre group of buildings in Plymouth, Devon, and after relocating he remained Plymouth's leading architect for twenty-five years. Urban Planning of Plymouth At the time, Plymouth was a prosperous port town, separated along the coast of Plymouth Sound from the neighbouring towns of East Stonehouse and Devonport; collectively known as the Three Towns. Foulston was responsible for the creation of Union Street from the Frankfort Gate which was built across marshland to unite the three towns. Ker Street, Devonport Most of Foulston's work was in the Greek Reviv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1781 In Architecture
The year 1781 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings *Brizlee Tower, Alnwick, Northumberland, England, a folly erected for Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, possibly designed by Robert Adam *St. Hilarius Parish Church of Näfels, Switzerland, designed by architects Johann Singer and Jakob Singer. * Triumphal Arc, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, built for the visit of Polish King Stanisław August Poniatowski to the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi. * Sturehov Manor near Stockholm, designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, probably completed. *Montagu House, Portman Square, London, designed by James Stuart, completed. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Louis Combes. Births *March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect, city planner, and painter (died 1841) *August 12 – Robert Mills, possibly the first native-born American to train as a professional architect (died 1855) . Deaths * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassical and neogothic buildings. His most famous buildings are found in and around Berlin. Biography Schinkel was born in Neuruppin, Margraviate of Brandenburg. When he was six, his father died in the disastrous Neuruppin fire of 1787. He became a student of architect Friedrich Gilly (1772–1800) (the two became close friends) and his father, David Gilly, in Berlin. At that time, the architectural taste in Prussia was shaped in neoclassical style, mainly by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the architect of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. After returning to Berlin from his first trip to Italy in 1805, he started to earn his living as a painter. When he saw Caspar David Friedrich's painting ''Wanderer above the Sea of Fog'' at the 1810 Berlin art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 In Architecture
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2– 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in Berlin: The Marxist Spartacus League, with the newly formed Communist Party of Germany and the Independent Social Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frigyes Schulek
Frigyes Schulek (19 November 1841 – 5 September 1919) was a Hungarian architect, , retrieved 15 May 2012 a professor at József Technical University and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ''(Magyar Tudományos Akadémia)''. Life Education [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 In Architecture
The year 1924 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * May – Royal Fine Art Commission appointed to advise the government of the United Kingdom on matters concerning the built environment. * Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici begin work on their vacation home E-1027 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France Buildings and structures Buildings completed * The Chilehaus in Hamburg, Germany, designed by Johann Friedrich Höger. * Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht, Netherlands, designed by Gerrit Rietveld. * Copenhagen Police Headquarters in Denmark, designed by Hack Kampmann (died 1920). * Midland Bank headquarters in the City of London, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. * Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building on Manhattan, designed by York and Sawyer. * American Radiator Building on Manhattan, designed by John Mead Howells, Raymond Hood and J. André Fouilhoux. * Queen Mary's Dolls' House in England, designed by Sir Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Heinrich Schwechten
Franz Heinrich Schwechten (12 August 1841 – 11 August 1924) was one of the most famous German architects of the Wilhelmine era, and contributed to the development of historicist architecture. Life Schwechten was born in Cologne, the son of a district court judge. He attended '' Gymnasium'', taking his ''Abitur'' in 1860, and went on to work as an apprentice of master builder Julius Carl Raschdorff, who would later design the new Berlin Cathedral. In 1861, Schwechten enrolled in the Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture) in Berlin, where he studied under Karl Bötticher and Friedrich Adler. During a practical training period following the completion of his studies in December 1863, Schwechten worked first for several months with Friedrich August Stüler, until May 1864, and then with Martin Gropius, until June 1865.In 1868, Schwechten received an award from the Berlin Architect's Union for the Neoclassical design of a Prussian Parliament building. The next year, he graduated as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 In Architecture
The year 1918 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * November 3 – A Baroque Marian column (built 1650) in Prague, the Czech Republic, is destroyed by nationalists. * December 3 – The November Group (''Novembergruppe'') of expressionist artists and architects is formed in Germany, and shortly afterwards merges with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst. Buildings and structures Buildings * Hallidie Building is built in San Francisco. Designed by Willis Polk. Credited as the first glass curtain wall building. * D. L. James House is built in Carmel Highlands, California. Designed by Greene and Greene in an Arts and Crafts style. * Copenhagen Police Headquarters are begun in Denmark. Designed by Hack Kampmann in a Neoclassical style. * Our Lady of the Victories Basilica in Melbourne, Australia is completed. * Newman College in Melbourne, Australia designed by Walter Burley Griffin, is completed. * The Chapel of St. James, of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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