1927 in architecture

Events

• July 11 – 1927 Jericho earthquake destroys or damages many mosques and other buildings in the area of Mandatory Palestine.
• The opening of the Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage in Moscow, designed by Konstantin Melnikov and Vladimir Shukhov, marks the beginning of Melnikov's "golden season", designing over ten buildings in one year, including extant Kauchuk Factory Club, Rusakov Workers' Club, Svoboda Factory Club and his own residence in Moscow. These buildings are completed in 1928–1929.
• The 15th century Chapelle de St. Martin de Seyssuel is relocated from Chasse-sur-Rhône to Long Island, New York.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• January – Temepara Tapu o Ihoa, Rātana Pā, New Zealand, is privately opened.
• July 1 – Centre Block, the main building of the Parliament of Canada on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, rebuilt after a fire in 1916 to a design by John A. Pearson and Jean Omer Marchand, is officially opened.
• July 6 – Central Fire Station in Leicester, England, designed by Albert E. and Tom Sawday, is officially opened.
• July 14 – Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle, designed by Robert Lorimer, is opened.
• July 24 – Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres, Belgium, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, is unveiled.
• October 9 – Norwich War Memorial in England, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, is unveiled.
• October 24 – Fred F. French Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, designed by H. Douglas Ives with Sloan & Robertson, is opened.

Buildings completed

• Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, Germany, designed by a team led by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
• Double house in Brno, designed by Otto Eisler.
• 5 villas in rue Mallet-Stevens, Paris, designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens.
• The rebuilt Quadrant in Regent Street, London, England.
• The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia.
• The Antoniuskirche in Switzerland, designed by Karl Moser.
• The Art Deco LeVeque Tower, designed by C. Howard Crane and John Gill & Sons, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. At tall, it is just slightly higher than the Washington Monument.
• The Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, California, designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood.
• Union and New Haven Trust Building, New Haven, Connecticut, designed by Cross & Cross.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Howard Van Doren Shaw.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Herbert Baker.

Births

• January 30 – Roberto Gottardi, Italian architect
• March 3 – Christian Menn, bridge architect
• June 18 – Ruth Rivera Marín, Mexican architect
• July 6 – Anton Alberts, Dutch architect best known for the ING Bank, Amsterdam
• August 26 – B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
• December 4 – Gae Aulenti, Italian architect, interior and lighting designer

Deaths

• January 3 – Antonio Rivas Mercado, Mexican architect
• January 25 – Mark Judge, British architect and engineer
• March 12 – John Beavor-Webb, Irish-born American naval architect
• June 23 – Colonel Sir Robert William Edis, English architect and interior decorator
• July 13 – Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect
• September 9 – Henry Ward, British architect
• October 29 – Hermann Muthesius, German architect and writer on architecture
• December 26 – Joseph Schwartz, American architect
• December 27 – Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Catalan Spanish architect