The year 1925 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

* April–October – International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (''Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes'') in Paris. * May 25 – 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 – 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, is completed. * Administration Building (Texas Tech University), Administration Building at Texas Technological College (modern-day Texas Tech University) in Lubbock, Texas, designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick, opens. * Altare della Patria (''Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II'') in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi (died 1905 in architecture, 1905) in 1884 in architecture, 1884, is completed. * :File:Uppståndelsekapellet 2012c.jpg, Uppståndelsekapellet (Resurrection Chapel), Skogskyrkogården (Woodland Cemetery), Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz, is built. * Villa Le Trident, Villa ''Le Trident'' at Théoule-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, designed by Barry Dierks, is built. * Government House of Thailand, in Bangkok, then known as ''Baan Norasingha'' ( th, บ้านนรสิงห์), designed by Corrado Feroci.

Awards

* AIA Gold Medal – Edwin Lutyens; Bertram Goodhue. * Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Giles Gilbert Scott. * Prix de Rome, architecture: Alfred Audoul.

Births

* January 14 – Aarno Ruusuvuori, Finnish architect (died 1992 in architecture, 1992) * January 17 – Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian American architect (died 2017 in architecture, 2017) * April 6 – Paul Ritter (architect), Paul Ritter, Australian architect, town planner, sociologist, artist and author (died 2010 in architecture, 2010) * May 18 – Justus Dahinden, Swiss architect and writer * May 31 – Frei Otto, German Pritzker Prize-winning architect and structural engineer (died 2015 in architecture, 2015) * June 25 – Robert Venturi, American Pulitzer Prize-winning architect (died 2018 in architecture, 2018) * August 20 – Henning Larsen, Danish architect (died 2013 in architecture, 2013)

Deaths

* January 8 – Stewart Henbest Capper, British Arts and Crafts architect (born 1859 in architecture, 1859) * April 13 – August Endell, German Jugendstil architect and designer (born 1871 in architecture, 1871) * September 13 – Emily Elizabeth Holman, American architect (born 1854 in architecture, 1854) * December 26 – Jan Letzel, Czech architect (born 1880 in architecture, 1880)

References

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