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1946 In Architecture
The year 1946 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * J. M. Richards publishes his anatomy of England's suburbia, ''The Castles on the Ground'', illustrated by John Piper. * Thomas Sharp publishes ''The Anatomy of the Village''. Buildings and structures Buildings *Hudson's department store in Detroit, Michigan, United States is completed. *BISF houses in the United Kingdom, designed by Frederick Gibberd. Awards * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Patrick Abercrombie. * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Guillaume Gillet. Births *April 24 – Piers Gough, English architect *May 12 – Daniel Libeskind, Polish architect, artist and set designer *''date unknown'' **Alberto Campo Baeza, Spanish architect **Richard Johnson, Australian architect Deaths *February 4 – Herbert Baker, British architect based in South Africa (born 1862) *August 30 – Theodate Pope Riddle, American architect (born 1867) *December 16 – Zachar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Maude Richards
Sir James Maude Richards, FRIBA (13 August 1907 – 27 April 1992) was a British architectural writer. James Maude Richards was born in 1907, at Ladypath, Park Lane, Carshalton, Surrey. His father, Louis Saurin Richards, was a solicitor, and his mother, Lucy Denes (''née'' Clarence), was born in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. Educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Cambridge University, he trained as an architect at the Architectural Association. He worked at J. Lyons & Co., assisting Oliver Percy Bernard, before being sent to work as an architectural assistant for the engineer, Owen Williams. But his main career was as a writer on architecture. As well as publishing many books, he served as editor of the ''Architectural Review'' from 1937 to 1971, the longest period in office of any of its editors. He had a short, unhappy marriage to artist Peggy Angus, with whom he had a daughter, Victoria, and a son Angus. The couple married in 1936 and divorced in 1948. In 1954, he married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 24
Events Pre-1600 * 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty). * 1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marking the end of the legendary Trojan War, given by chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria Eratosthenes, among others. * 1547 – Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League. * 1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris. 1601–1900 * 1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, ''The Boston News-Letter'', is published. * 1793 – French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris. * 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zachary Taylor Davis
Zachary Taylor Davis (May 26, 1869 – December 16, 1946) was the architect of several major Chicago buildings, including St. Ambrose (1904) Old Comiskey Park (1910), Wrigley Field (1914), Mount Carmel High School (1924), and St. James Chapel of Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary (1918). Biography Davis was born in Aurora, Illinois, and graduated from the Chicago School of Architecture at Armour Institute (later Illinois Institute of Technology). After graduating he began a six-year apprenticeship, part of which was spent as a draftsman for Louis Sullivan—along with another aspiring architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. After his work with Adler and Sullivan, Davis began his career as supervising architect for Armour & Company. Later, in 1900, Davis started an independent firm with his brother Charles. In 1909, he designed the third Kankakee County Courthouse. A year later, he was hired by Charles Comiskey to design White Sox Park, later known as Comiskey Park. To prepare for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 16
Events Pre-1600 * 714 – Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom. * 755 – An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing, initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang dynasty of China. *1431 – Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris. * 1497 – Vasco da Gama passes the Great Fish River at the southern tip of Africa, where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal. * 1575 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5 strikes Valdivia, Chile. * 1598 – Seven-Year War: Battle of Noryang: The final battle of the Seven-Year War is fought between the China and the Korean allied forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive allied forces victory. 1601–1900 * 1653 – English Interregnum: T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1867 In Architecture
The year 1867 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * May 12 – Construction work begins on Toluca Cathedral in Mexico. * May 20 – Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone for the Royal Albert Hall in London, designed by Captain Francis Fowke and Colonel H. Y. Darracott Scott. * Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete. * Ildefons Cerdà publishes ''Teoría General de la Urbanización'' ("General Theory of Urbanization"). * The United States Congress directs the United States Army Corps of Engineers to begin improvements on the Navigation Structures at Frankfort Harbor, Michigan. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * January 1 – The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, United States * May 11 – St Nedelya Church, Sofia, Bulgaria (rebuilt) * July 30 – Kvæfjord Church, Norway, designed by Jacob Wilhelm Nordan * July 31 – St Giles Church, Willenhall, England (consecrated) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodate Pope Riddle
Theodate Pope Riddle (February 2, 1867 – August 30, 1946) was an American architect and philanthropist. She was one of the first American women architects and a survivor of the sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania''. Life Born Effie Brooks Pope in Cleveland, Ohio, she was the only child of industrialist and art collector Alfred Atmore Pope and his wife Ada Lunette Brooks and was a first cousin to Louisa Pope, the future mother of architect Philip Johnson. When Effie was 19, she changed her name to Theodate in honor of her grandmother Theodate Stackpole. She graduated from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut and later hired faculty members to tutor her privately in architecture. The first woman to become a licensed architect in New York and the sixth woman to be licensed in Connecticut, in 1926, she was appointed a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She designed Hill-Stead, the family estate (now Hill–Stead Museum) in Farmington, and designed and founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 30
Events Pre-1600 * 70 – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple. * 1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers. * 1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty. * 1464 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope. * 1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master. * 1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590) * 1594 – King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle. 1601–1900 * 1721 – The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad. * 1727 – Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal. * 1757 – Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1862 In Architecture
The year 1862 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * May 8 – Church of St Philip and St James, Oxford, designed by George Edmund Street. * May 12 – Ulster Hall, Belfast, designed by William J. Barre. * May 17 – Teatro Comunale Florence, Italy. * November 19 – Brekke Church, Norway, designed by Christian Henrik Grosch. Buildings completed * Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, Queens, New York, USA. * Iron Clad Building, Cooperstown, New York, USA, designed by James Bogardus. * Laxmangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India. * Peace College Main Building, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. * Propylaea (Munich), designed by Leo von Klenze. * Rila Monastery, Bulgaria, by Alexi Rilets (reconstruction). * Government House, Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, designed by Charles Tiffin. * Treasury Building, Melbourne, Australia, designed by J. J. Clark in 1857 (when he was 19). * Great Malvern railway station, En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Baker
Sir Herbert Baker (9 June 1862 – 4 February 1946) was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures. He was born and died at Owletts in Cobham, Kent. Among the many churches, schools and houses he designed in South Africa are the Union Buildings in Pretoria, St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, St. John's College, Johannesburg, the Wynberg Boys' High School, Groote Schuur in Cape Town, and the Champagne Homestead and Rhodes Cottage on Boschendal, between Franschhoek and Stellenbosch.Boschendal 2007. Publisher Boschendal Limited With Sir Edwin Lutyens he was instrumental in designing, among other buildings, Viceroy's House, Parliament House, and the North and South Blocks of the Secretariat, all in New Delhi, which in 1931 became the capital of the British Raj, as well as its successor states the Dominion of India and the Republic of India. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 4
Events Pre–1600 * 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling sons, Caracalla and Geta, whom he had instructed to make peace. * 960 – The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries. *1169 – A strong earthquake strikes the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania. * 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: The Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, sparking the Thirteen Years' War. * 1555 – John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England. 1601–1900 * 1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), all but on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Johnson (architect)
Richard Anthony Johnson (born 11 May 1946, in Sydney) is an Australian architect best known as the creator of some of the Australian most important and iconic cultural buildings and spaces of the twentieth century. Academic career Johnson graduated in 1969 with first class honours in Architecture from the University of New South Wales and a Master of Philosophy in Town Planning from the University College London in 1977. He has held several academic positions including Adjunct Professor of Architecture, at the University of NSW between 1999 and 2008; and a Professor of Practice/Architectural Studies, at the University of NSW since 2008. Professional associations include appointment as a Life Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 2011; a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 2005; an Associate of the Design Institute of Australia; an Associate of the Japan Institute of Architects; and a Registered Architect in the State of New South Wale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Campo Baeza
Alberto Campo Baeza (born 1946, in Valladolid) is a Spanish architect and Full-Time Design Professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid from 1986 to 2017. He retired the same year. He has built a selected number of awarded buildings. He has been considered part of the group of designers who introduced Minimalism in architecture, together with architects such as David Chipperfield and John Pawson. Campo defends the elimination of color in architecture, as a mean to maximize the expressivity of natural light. Biography Alberto Campo graduated from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1971 and received his PhD in 1982. Campo Baeza taught at ETH Zurich in 1989 and 1990; The Architecture Winter School in Dublin in 1992, Domus International Courses in Naples in 1993; and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia; at The Royal Academy in Copenhagen in 1996; at the EPFL Ecole d’Architecture of Lausanne in 1997; the University of Pennsylvania in 1986 and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
