1907 in architecture explained

The year 1907 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• January – Plans for St David's Hotel, a hotel for golfers at Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, are drawn up by the Glasgow School architect George Walton for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he is a member.^[1] The hotel closes in 2008, and planning permission for demolition is approved in 2009.
• May 18 – The foundation stone of Bedford School chapel in England, designed by G. F. Bodley, is laid.
• September 29 – The foundation stone of Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., designed by G. F. Bodley, is laid.
• October 6 – Deutscher Werkbund is founded by Hermann Muthesius in Munich.^[2]
• City plan for Barcelona by Léon Jaussely officially adopted.
• District plan for Highland Park, Texas, by Wilbur David Cook and George Kessler drawn up.
• English designer C. R. Ashbee is commissioned to build the Villa San Giorgio in Taormina, Sicily.^[3]

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

• April 13 – Old New York Evening Post Building at 20 Vesey Street on Manhattan, designed in Art Nouveau style by Robert D. Kohn, opened.
• October 8 – Kirche am Steinhof in Vienna, designed by Otto Wagner.
• Great Mosque of Djenné in French Sudan.
• Port of Liverpool Building in Liverpool, England, designed by Sir Arnold Thornely.
• Tampere Cathedral, Finland, designed by Lars Sonck.
• Poti Cathedral in Georgia within the Russian Empire, designed by Alexander Zelenko and Robert Marfeld and constructed on the Hennebique system.^[4]
• St Matthew's Church, Paisley in Scotland, designed by W. D. McLennan.
• St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Krebs, Oklahoma).
• Rebuilt Sainte-Madeleine, Strasbourg, in Alsace-Lorraine, designed by Fritz Beblo.
• The Magasins Réunis, a large department store in Nancy, France, by Lucien Weissenburger (after seventeen years of work).
• Villa Fruhinsholz in Nancy, France, designed by Léon Cayotte.
• Stadttheater Barmen in Wuppertal and Stadttheater Düren, both designed by Carl Moritz in Germany.
• North Hall, the fifth dormitory on the quad at Vassar College, USA. The building is renamed Jewett Hall in 1912 in honor of the College's first president, Milo P. Jewett.
• Rebuilt Basel SBB railway station in Switzerland, designed by Emil Faesch and Emmanuel La Roche.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Aston Webb.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John Belcher.

Births

• June 17 – Charles Eames, American designer (died 1978)
• July 7 – Ben-Ami Shulman, Israeli architect (died 1986)
• August 13
  • J. M. Richards, English architectural writer (died 1992)
  • Basil Spence, Indian-born British architect (died 1976)
• December 15 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (died 2012)
• Walter Segal, German-born architect, pioneer of self-build methods (died 1985)

Deaths

• January 24 – Vilhelm Dahlerup, Danish historicist architect (born 1826)
• May 6 – Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1830)
• June 14 – William Le Baron Jenney, American architect credited with building the first skyscraper (born 1832)
• October 21 – George Frederick Bodley, English architect (born 1827)
• November 30 – Ludwig Levy, German Jewish historicist architect (born 1854)

Notes and References

1. Haslam, R.; Orbach., J.; Voelcker, A. (2009). Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Wales, Gwynedd. Yale University Press. .
2. Burckhardt, Lucius (1987). The Werkbund. Hyperion Press. .
3. Web site: RIBA archive drawings. . 2019-01-12 . 2015-06-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150611000131/http://www.ribapix.com/index.php?a=wordsearch&s=item&key=Wczo4OiJ0YW9ybWluYSI7&pg=1 . dead .
4. Le béton armé no 126 (November 1908) pp. 147-153.