1933 in architecture

• The Bauhaus school in Berlin is permanently closed by the Nazi government. • Modern Architectural Research Group (MARS Group) established as a think tank by younger architects and critics involved in the modernist movement in Great Britain. • Completion of restoration of Herstmonceux Castle in England by Walter Godfrey. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings opened • February 21 – Nebotičnik skyscraper, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, designed by Vladimir Šubic. • July – New Midland Hotel, Morecambe, Lancashire, England, designed by Oliver Hill. • August 23 – Leeds Civic Hall, Yorkshire, England, designed by Vincent Harris in 1926. • November 29 – Schwandbach Bridge, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart. • Royal Masonic Hospital (later Ravenscourt Park Hospital) at Ravenscourt Park in London, designed by Thomas S. Tait of Sir John Burnet, Tait and Lorne. • Labworth Café on Canvey Island, England, designed by engineer Ove Arup. • 1933 Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition, Chicago Buildings completed , first stage • St Gabriel's Anglican Church in Blackburn, England, designed by F. X. Velarde. • Városmajori Roman Catholic church in Budapest, completed by Bertalan Árkay following the death in 1932 of his father Aladár Árkay. • Myer Emporium renovation, Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia. • The Round House, designed by Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton Architectural Group to house gorillas at London Zoo, one of the first modernist buildings in Britain. • Battersea Power Station, London, with Giles Gilbert Scott as consultant architect, begins operation. • College Hall, Royal Air Force College Cranwell, England, designed by James Grey West. • Mardon Hall, first of the University of Exeter Halls of Residence in England, designed by Vincent Harris. • Darbishire Quad at Somerville College, Oxford, England, designed by Morley Horder. • Mercado de Abastos de Algeciras (market hall), Spain, designed by Eduardo Torroja. • Villa Markelius in Stockholm, designed by Sven Markelius for himself. • Schminke house in Löbau, Germany, designed by Hans Scharoun. • Engel House, White City (Tel Aviv), Mandatory Palestine, designed by Zeev Rechter. • Töss Footbridge, Winterthur, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart. ==Awards==

• AIA Gold Medal – Ragnar Östberg. • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Charles Reed Peers. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Alexandre Courtois. ==Publications==

• John Betjeman – Ghastly Good Taste, or the depressing story of the rise and fall of British architecture. • The Information Book of Sir John Burnet, Tait & Lorne. ==Births==

• February 2 – Rodney Gordon, British architect (died 2008) • June 25 – Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect and architectural educator • July 23 • Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (died 2010) • Richard Rogers, Italian-born British modernist and functionalist architect (died 2021) • October 29 – John Andrews, Australian architect (died 2022) • November 4 – Terje Moe, Norwegian architect (died 2009) • November 24 - Isaac Fola-Alade, Nigerian architect (1004 Estate) (died 2021) ==Deaths==

• January – Edward Lippincott Tilton, American architect based in New York (born 1861) • March 10 – Émile André, French architect, artist and furniture designer (born 1871) • April 16 – Harold Peto, English architect and garden designer (born 1854) • August 8 • Luca Beltrami, Italian architect and architectural historian (born 1854) • Adolf Loos, Austrian/Czechoslovak architect and writer (born 1870) • December 4 – W. G. R. Sprague, British theatre architect (born 1863) • December 24 – Sir Frank Baines, English architect (born 1877) ==References==