1916 in architecture
# 1916 in architecture

The year 1916 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* Colony Club at Park Avenue & 62nd Streer in New York City by Delano & Aldrich with interiors by Elsie de Wolfe, later the East Coast school of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, completed.
* Main building of St Hugh's College, Oxford in England by Herbert Tudor Buckland and William Haywood completed.
* Church of St Paul, Liverpool in England by Giles Gilbert Scott completed.
* Holland House (shipping company offices) in the City of London, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed.
* Las Lajas Shrine in Colombia, begun; completed 1949.

## Events

* c. November – The Incorporation of Architects in Scotland founded in Edinburgh.
* Publication of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs is initiated, continuing until 1940.

## Awards

* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Robert Rowand Anderson.
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held.

## Births

* January 23 – Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, German architect (d. 1961)
* April 4 – Robert S. McMillan, American architect (d. 2001)
* May 4 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian urban theorist (d. 2006)
* May 21 – Leonard Manasseh, Singapore-born British architect (d. 2017)
* June 29 – John M. Johansen, American architect (d. 2012)
* July 1 – Lawrence Halprin, American architect (d. 2009)
* August 6 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese architect and Prime Minister (d. 2012)
* November 1 – John C. Harkness, American architect
* November 9 – Richard Tyler, British architect (d. 2009)
* Dewi-Prys Thomas, British architect (d. 1985)

## Deaths

* March 22 – Ferdinand Fellner, Austrian architect (b. 1847)
* June – Addison Hutton, American architect (b. 1834)
* July 1 – First Day on the Somme (killed in action)
   * Eugene Bourdon, French architect (b. 1870)
   * Gilbert Waterhouse, English architect and war poet (b. 1883)
* July 22 – Hans Jørgen Holm, Danish architect (b. 1835)
* October 10 – Antonio Sant'Elia, Italian architect (killed in action) (b. 1888)
* December 22 – Gyula Pártos, Hungarian architect (b. 1845)
