1917 in architecture
# 1917 in architecture

The year 1917 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

* The journal De Stijl is first published by Theo van Doesburg.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* The Het Schip housing scheme designed by Michel de Klerk in Amsterdam is started.
* The Lister County Courthouse (Listers härads tingshus) designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund in a Mannerist style in Sölvesborg, Sweden is started.

### Buildings completed

* Cunard Building, Liverpool, England, designed by William Edward Willink and Philip Coldwell Thicknesse.
* Edificio Correos, San José, Costa Rica
* Livermore House, San Francisco, California, USA, designed by Julia Morgan.
* Rhode Island Hospital Trust Building, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, designed by York and Sawyer

## Awards

* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Henri Paul Nenot.

## Births

* March 2 – Laurie Baker, British-born Indian architect, known for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture (died 2007)
* April 26 – I. M. Pei, Chinese American architect often called a master of modern architecture (died 2019)
* July 6 – Wang Da-hong, Chinese-born Taiwanese architect (died 2018)
* September 14 – Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer (died 2007)
* December 8 – Nisse Strinning, Swedish architect and designer (died 2006)
* December 10 – Eladio Dieste, Uruguayan engineer and architect (died 2000)

## Deaths

* January 19 – E. R. Robson, English school architect (born 1836)
* February 8 – Thomas Arboe, Danish railway station architect (born 1837)
* July 2 – Gerald Horsley, English architect (born 1862)
* August 4 – C. W. Stephens, English commercial architect (born c.1845)
* September 23 – Robert Swain Peabody, Boston architect (born 1845)
* November 23 – William Ralph Emerson, American architect (born 1833)
* December 30 – Gustaf Nyström, Finnish architect (born 1856)
