1937 in architecture
# 1937 in architecture

The year 1937 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

* May – The Georgian Group is set up as part of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in England.
* September 7 – Witley Court in Worcestershire, England, is gutted by fire.
* J. M. Richards becomes editor of the Architectural Review (London), continuing until 1971.
* Icelandic State Architect Guðjón Samúelsson's design for the Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík is commissioned; it will be constructed 1945–86.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings opened

* May 6 – Chelsea Bridge in Pimlico, London, designed by G. Topham Forrest, former head of London County Council's Architect's Department, opened by the Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King.
* May 27 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, longest suspension bridge in the world by the length of central span (1937–1964), designed by Joseph B. Strauss.
* July 18 – Haus der deutschen Kunst ("House of German Art") in Munich, designed by Paul Troost (died 1934), opened by Adolf Hitler to display art of the Third Reich.

### Buildings completed

* Thousand Islands Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River, linking Canada and the United States.
* Petőfi Bridge, Budapest, Hungary.
* Holy Trinity Church, Sighișoara, Romania, designed by Dumitru Petrescu Gopeş.
* Bethlehem Church, Copenhagen, Denmark, by Kaare Klint after original designs by his father, Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (died 1930).
* Church of St Michael and All Angels, Northenden, Manchester, England, designed by Nugent Cachemaille-Day.
* Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride, Amlwch, Wales, designed by Giuseppe Rinvolucri.
* Senate House (University of London), designed by Charles Holden.
* Dolphin Square in Pimlico, London, designed by Gordon Jeeves.
* Villa Myrdal, designed by Sven Markelius.
* 3 Mapu Street, White City (Tel Aviv), Mandatory Palestine, designed by Ben-Ami Shulman.
* St Ann's Court, near Chertsey in England, a modernist circular house designed by Raymond McGrath for Gerald L. Schlesinger and his partner landscape architect Christopher Tunnard.
* Houses in Frognal Close, Hampstead, London, designed by Ernst L. Freud.
* Kensal House in Ladbroke Grove, London, two low-rise blocks of modernist flats for the working class designed by Maxwell Fry.
* Republic pavilion, Barcelona, and Spanish Republican government pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris, both designed by Josep Lluís Sert.
* Club Moderne, Anaconda, Montana, designed by Fred F. Willson, built.
* Via della Conciliazione in Rome constructed following demolition of the Piazza Scossacavalli.

## Awards

* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Raymond Unwin.
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul Jacques Grillo

## Births

* February 7 – Daryl Jackson, Australian architect
* April 18 – Jan Kaplický, Czech architect mainly active in UK (died 2009)
* May 9 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
* September 14 – Renzo Piano, Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect
* October 3 – Richard England, Maltese architect
* October 24 – M. Rosaria Piomelli, born Agrisano, Italian-born American architect
* December 7 – Ron Labinski, American stadium architect (d. 2023)
* date unknown
   * Kate Macintosh, Scottish-born architect
   * Georgie Wolton, born Cheesman, English architect
   * Yoshio Taniguchi, Japanese architect active in New York

## Deaths

* January 10 – Bertie Crewe, English architect (born 1860)
* January 28 – Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooting champion (born 1862)
* February 11 – Walter Burley Griffin, US architect and landscape architect, involved in design of Canberra (born 1876)
* May 9 – Harry Barton, US architect from North Carolina (born 1876)
* August 27 – John Russell Pope, US architect known for his work in Washington, DC (born 1874)
* November 23 – Edward Prioleau Warren, English architect (born 1856)
