1941 in architecture
The year 1941 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- Hoover Tower in Stanford, California, United States, designed by Arthur Brown, Jr., completed.
- Fen Court at Peterhouse, Cambridge, England, designed by H. C. Hughes and Peter Bicknell, completed.
- Dublin Airport passenger terminal, Ireland, designed by Desmond FitzGerald, opened.
- Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia, completed.
- Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, completed.
- Smith-Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, completed.
- Replica of the Parthenon, in concrete, in Nashville, Tennessee, completed.
- Presidential Palace of Tirana, in Tirana, Albania, completed.
- Karlskoga city hall in Sweden designed by Sune Lindström.
- National and University Library of Slovenia in Ljubljana, designed by Jože Plečnik in 1930/31, completed.
- Biblioteca Cantonale in Lugano, Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, designed by Rino and Carlo Tami, completed.
- St Peter's Church, Grange Park, Enfield, London, designed by Cyril Farey, built using recycled materials.
- Willow Run Bomber Plant, Michigan, designed by Albert Kahn.
- Schwerbelastungskörper, Berlin, Germany, built by Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG.
- Kahn House in Ngaio, New Zealand, designed by Ernst Plischke, completed.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: no competition.
Births
- March 3 – Vlado Milunić, Czech architect
- April 1 – David Childs, American architect
- May 6 – Peter Corrigan, Australian architect
- June 1 – Toyo Ito, Japanese architect
- September 13 – Tadao Ando, Japanese "critical regionalist" architectapproximate date – Yasmeen Lari, Pakistani architect
Deaths
- February 12 – Charles Voysey, English Arts and Crafts designer and domestic architect
- August 26 – Sir Alfred Gelder, English architect and politician active in Kingston upon Hull
- September 2 – H. Craig Severance, American architect active in New York
- December 30 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect