1926 in architecture

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The year 1926 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events[edit]

Gaudí's funeral

June 7 – While walking along the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes in Barcelona, Antoni Gaudí is struck by a passing tram and knocked unconscious. Delays in receiving medical treatment contribute to his death in hospital a few days later.^[1] On June 12, after a funeral procession through the streets of Barcelona lined by thousands, he is buried in the crypt chapel of his unfinished church of Sagrada Família.
November 27 – In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.
Undated
- British General Post Office K2 red telephone box, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, is introduced, chiefly in the London area.^[2]
- The Frankfurt kitchen is designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for Ernst May's social housing project New Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany.^[3]
- The Russian avant-garde magazine SA is published for the first time.

Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral, Satu Mare, Romania, designed by Ioan Liteanu
Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc, designed by Hubert Aust
Sacred Heart Cathedral of Harbin, China
Southwestern Bell Building, downtown St. Louis, Missouri, USA, designed by Mauran, Russell & Crowell with I.R. Timlin
Sourdough Inn, Fort Yukon, Alaska, USA
Remodeling of Twin Peaks, 102 Bedford Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, by Clifford Reed Daily
900 Stewart Avenue (Ithaca, New York), USA
New Ways (house for Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke), 508 Wellingborough Road, Northampton, England, designed by Peter Behrens, "a pioneer of modern architecture in Britain"^[4]

10 June – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, exponent of Catalan Modernism (born 1852)
7 July – Fyodor Schechtel, Russian architect, graphic artist and stage designer (born 1859)

^ Férrin, Ana María (2001). Gaudí, de piedra y fuego (in Spanish). Barcelona: Jaraquemada. p. 415. ISBN 978-84-932015-0-0.
^ Johannessen, Neil (1994). Telephone Boxes. Princes Risborough: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-7478-0250-5.
^ Melching, Karen (2006). "Frankfurt Kitchen: patina follows function". Conservation Journal (53). Archived from the original on 2009-12-18.
^ The Twentieth Century Society (2017). "1926". 100 Houses 100 Years. London: Batsford. ISBN 978-1-84994-437-3.
^ Quebec to take over Games' contracts.
^ Roger Taillibert publie ses mémoires (French).