1923 in architecture

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The year 1923 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• Vers une architecture by Le Corbusier (later translated into English as Towards a New Architecture) is published.
• Bauhaus expressionist architecture phase ends.
• Liebenberg and Kaplan architectural practice established in Minneapolis.

Buildings opened

Stockholm City Hall

• June 23 - Stockholm City Hall, designed by Ragnar Östberg.
• December 26 - Ottawa Auditorium, Canada (demolished 1967).

Buildings completed

• Chilehaus in Hamburg, designed by Fritz Höger.
• Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Église Notre-Dame du Raincy in France, designed by Auguste Perret.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Henry Bacon
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - John James Burnet
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Baptiste Mathon

Births

• March 2 - Sam Scorer, English architect (died 2003)
• June 24 - Peter Womersley, British architect (died 1993)
• June 25 - Harry Seidler, Austrian-born Australian Modernist architect (died 2006)
• September 18 - Peter Smithson, English New Brutalist architect, husband and partner of Alison Smithson (died 2003)
• September 25 - Leonardo Benevolo, Italian historian of modern architecture (died 2017)
• Eulie Chowdhury, Indian architect (died 1995)

Deaths

• May 19 - Frank Darling, Canadian architect and promoter of the Beaux-Arts style (born 1850)
• October 25 - Robert S. Roeschlaub, Colorado architect (born 1843)
• November 24 - Michel de Klerk, Dutch Amsterdam School architect (born 1884)
• December 27 - Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer and architect (born 1832)