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1923 in architecture

The year 1923 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events
Vers une architecture by Le Corbusier (later translated into English as Towards a New Architecture) is published. • Bauhaus expressionist architecture phase ends. • Liebenberg and Kaplan architectural practice established in Minneapolis. ==Buildings and structures==
Buildings and structures
, Sweden Buildings openedJune 23Stockholm City Hall, designed by Ragnar Östberg. • December 26Ottawa Auditorium, Canada (demolished 1967). Buildings completed • Coedfa (residence), The Close, Llanfairfechan, North Wales, designed by Herbert Luck North. • Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. • Église Notre-Dame du Raincy in France, designed by Auguste Perret. • Pershing Square Building in New York, New York, designed by Sloan & Robertson and York and Sawyer. ==Awards==
Births
March 2Sam Scorer, English architect (died 2003) • June 5Yona Friedman, Hungarian born French architect and architectural theorist ("mobile architecture") (died 2020) • June 24Peter Womersley, British architect (died 1993) • June 25Harry Seidler, Austrian-born Australian Modernist architect (died 2006) • September 18Peter Smithson, English New Brutalist architect, husband and partner of Alison Smithson (died 2003) • September 25Leonardo Benevolo, Italian historian of modern architecture (died 2017) • December 12Richard Gilbert Scott, English architect (died 2017) • December 19 – Alexander Cvijanović, Yugoslav/American architect (died 2019) • December 25Jack Zunz, South African-born structural engineer (died 2018) • Eulie Chowdhury, Indian architect (died 1995) ==Deaths==
Deaths
May 19Frank Darling, Canadian architect and promoter of the Beaux-Arts style (born 1850) • October 25Robert S. Roeschlaub, Colorado architect (born 1843) • November 24Michel de Klerk, Dutch Amsterdam School architect (born 1884) • December 27Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer and architect (born 1832) ==References==
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