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1880 In Architecture
The year 1880 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings * August 14 â Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, is completed after 632 years. * Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof (railway station) in Berlin, Germany, rebuilt by Franz Heinrich Schwechten, is completed. * Manchester Central railway station in Manchester, England is completed. * Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne is completed. * Yıldız Palace, Istanbul, Turkey, is built. * Bathing Ghat, Bulandshahr, India, is completed. Awards * RIBA Royal Gold Medal â John Loughborough Pearson. * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Louis Girault. Births * April 1 â Louis Laybourne Smith â Australian architect (died 1965) * April 9 â Jan Letzel, Czech architect (died 1925) * May 4 â Bruno Taut, German architect and urban planner (died 1938) * May 19 â Albert Richardson, English architect, writer, and professor of architecture (died 1964) * May 25 â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melb CBN Exhibition Building 2
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/WoiwurrungâTaungurung language, Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local government area, local municipality of City of Melbourne based around Melbourne City Centre, its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Loughborough Pearson
John Loughborough Pearson (5 July 1817 â 11 December 1897) was a British Gothic Revival architect renowned for his work on churches and cathedrals. Pearson revived and practised largely the art of vaulting, and acquired in it a proficiency unrivalled in his generation. He worked on at least 210 ecclesiastical buildings in England alone in a career spanning 54 years. Early life and education Pearson was born in Brussels on 5 July 1817. He was the son of William Pearson, etcher, of Durham, and was brought up there. At the age of fourteen, he was articled to Ignatius Bonomi, architect, of Durham, whose clergy clientele helped stimulate Pearson's long association with religious architecture, particularly of the Gothic style. He soon moved to London, where he became a pupil of Philip Hardwick (1792â1870), architect of the Euston Arch and Lincoln's Inn. Pearson lived in central London at 13 Mansfield Street (where a blue plaque commemorates him), and he was awarded the RIBA R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Richardson (architect)
Sir Albert Edward Richardson (London, 19 May 1880 â 3 February 1964) was a leading English architect, teacher and writer about architecture during the first half of the 20th century. He was Professor of Architecture at University College London, a President of the Royal Academy, editor of ''Architects' Journal'', founder of the Georgian Group and the Guild of Surveyors and Master of the Art Workers' Guild. Life and work Richardson was born in London. He trained in the offices of Leonard Stokes and Frank T. Verity, practitioners of the Beaux-Arts style, and in 1906 he established his first architectural practice, in partnership with Charles Lovett Gill (the Richardson & Gill partnership was eventually dissolved in 1939). He wrote several articles for ''Architectural Review'' and the survey of ''London Houses from 1660 to 1820: a Consideration of their Architecture and Detail'' (1911). In the following year he was appointed architect to the Prince of Wales's Duchy of Cornwall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 19
Events Pre-1600 * 639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace. * 715 – Pope Gregory II is elected. * 1051 – Henry I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kiev. *1445 – John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo. * 1499 – Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12. * 1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage). * 1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest. * 1542 – The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Myanmar. 1601â1900 * 1643 – Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 In Architecture
The year 1938 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * First woman elected to Royal Institute of British Architects, Josephine Miller. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * July â Saltdean Lido and Ocean Hotel, Saltdean, East Sussex, England, both designed by R.W.H. Jones. * October 22 â Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, England, designed by Edward Maufe. * October 29 â City Hall, Norwich, England, designed by C. H. James and S. R. Pierce. * November 14 â Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Buildings completed * 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, Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Taut
Bruno Julius Florian Taut (4 May 1880 â 24 December 1938) was a renowned German architect, urban planner and author of Prussian Lithuanian heritage ("taut" means "nation" in Lithuanian). He was active during the Weimar period and is known for his theoretical works as well as his building designs. Early life and career Taut was born in Königsberg in 1880. After secondary school, he studied at the Baugewerkschule. In the following years, Taut worked in the offices of various architects in Hamburg and Wiesbaden. In 1903, he was employed by Bruno Möhring in Berlin, where he acquainted himself with ''Jugendstil'' and new building methods combining steel with masonry. From 1904 to 1908, Taut worked in Stuttgart for Theodor Fischer and studied urban planning. He received his first commission through Fischer in 1906, which involved the renovation of the village church in Unterriexingen. In 1908, he returned to Berlin to study art history and construction at the ''Royal Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 4
Events Pre-1600 * 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''. * 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. *1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson * 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. * 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation. 1601â1900 *1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the ''See Meeuw''. * 1686 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines. * 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III. *1799 – Fourth A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 In Architecture
The year 1925 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * AprilâOctober â International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (''Exposition Internationale des Arts DĂ©coratifs et Industriels Modernes'') in Paris. * May 25 â Second Madison Square Garden (1890), Madison Square Garden (the version built 1890 and designed by Stanford White) is closed on this date and demolished shortly after. * St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church (12th century) is shipped from Sacramenia, Province of Segovia, Segovia, Spain to the United States by William Randolph Hearst. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * November 18 â Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, designed by Delano & Aldrich opens. 4,800 people come to see the building on opening day, followed by 3,000 people the next day. Buildings completed * Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D.C.), designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton, opens. * Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), designed by Yehuda Magidovitch, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Letzel
Jan Letzel (April 9, 1880 – December 26, 1925) was a Czech architect, most famous for designing a building in Hiroshima whose ruins are now the A-Bomb Dome or Peace Memorial. Biography Jan Letzel was born in the town of NĂĄchod, Bohemia. His parents were hotel owners Jan Letzel and his wife Walburga, ''nĂ©e'' HavlĂÄkovĂĄ. After completion of training in the construction department of the Higher Vocational School in 1899, he took the post of assistant in the Department of Civil Engineering of the State Industrial School in Pardubice. In 1901 he won a scholarship to study architecture at the School of Applied Arts in Prague, where he studied for three years under Jan KotÄra, one of the founders of modern Czech architecture. In 1902 and 1903 he undertook study tours in Bohemia, Dalmatia, Montenegro, and Herzegovina. From June 1904 to August 1905 he worked at architectural firm Quido BÄlskĂœ in Prague. At the same time he designed and built a sanatorium and a pavilion in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 9
Events Pre-1600 * 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum. * 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position. * 537 – Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius Belisarius (; el, ÎΔλÎčÏÎŹÏÎčÎżÏ; The exact date of his birth is unknown. â 565) was a military commander of the Byzantine Empire under the emperor Justinian I. He was instrumental in the reconquest of much of the Mediterranean terri ... receives his promised reinforcements, 1,600 cavalry, mostly of Huns, Hunnic or Slavs, Slavic origin and expert Archery, bowmen. He starts, despite shortages, raids against the Ostrogoths, Gothic camps and Vitiges is forced into a stalemate. *1241 – Battle of Legnica, Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol Empire, Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies. *1288 – Mongol i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 In Architecture
The year 1965 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * Reconstruction of Skopje 1963, Reconstruction of Skopje in Yugoslavia planned by KenzĆ Tange and team. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * August 15 â Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway, Ireland, designed by John J. Robinson, is dedicated. * September â Toronto City Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. * October 6 ** Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls, designed by B+H Architects. ** BT Tower, Post Office Tower in London, UK, designed by Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats and topped out in 1964, is officially opened by Prime Minister Harold Wilson. * October 28 â Gateway Arch (opened as Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Eero Saarinen. * November 19 â Arctic Cathedral, TromsĂž, Norway, designed by Jan Inge Hovig, is dedicated. * December 28 â Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, designed by Edward Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Laybourne Smith
Louis Edouard Laybourne Smith CMG (1 April 1880 â 13 September 1965) was an architect and educator in South Australia. Born in the Adelaide inner-southern suburb of Unley, he became interested in engineering and architecture while in the goldfields of Western Australia and later studied mechanical engineering at the School of Mines, serving an apprenticeship under architect Edward Davies. After graduating he accepted a position as a lecturer at the school, and was responsible for developing the first formal architecture course in the State in 1904. Between 1905 and 1914, he served as registrar at the school before leaving to join his long-time friend, Walter Bagot, at the architectural firm of Woods, Bagot and Jory. He remained with the firm until his death in 1965, and over the years was involved in a number of significant projects, including the South Australian National War Memorial and the original Australian Mutual Provident building on King William Street. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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