1942 in architecture

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The year 1942 in architecture involved some significant events.

Normandie Hotel, San Juan

Buildings

• October 10 - The Normandie Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, designed by engineer Félix Benítez Rexach and architect Raúl Reichard, is opened.
• The National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, United States is completed.
• Wythenshawe Bus Garage in Manchester, England is completed.

Events

• April 25 - Marriage of English architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry in London.
• May 30/31 - Bombing of Cologne in World War II: The first 1,000 bomber raid and associated fires destroy 3,330 non-residential buildings and make 13,000 families homeless; eleven of the twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne are damaged.
• An abridged version of the Athens Charter by Le Corbusier is published.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - William Curtis Green.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Raymond Gleize?

Births

• January 19 - John Sheehy, American architect
• February 1 - Tonny Zwollo, Dutch-born architect
• March 23 - Fabio Reinhart, Swiss architect
• September 15 - Ksenia Milicevic, Yugoslav-born French painter, architect and town planner
• Patty Hopkins, born Patricia Wainwright, English architect
• Roger Walker, New Zealand architect

Deaths

• March 31 - Randall Wells, English Arts and Crafts architect (born 1877)
• May 20 - Hector Guimard, French-born Art Nouveau architect (born 1867)
• May 23 - C. R. Ashbee, English interior designer (born 1863)
• June 25 - Arthur Anderson, Australian architect (born 1868)
• September 22 - Ralph Adams Cram, American collegiate and ecclesiastical architect (born 1863)
• December 8 - Albert Kahn, German American industrial architect (born 1869)
• December 13 - Robert Robinson Taylor, first accredited African-American architect (born 1868)
• December 27 - Reginald Blomfield, English architect (born 1856)