1901 in architecture

The year 1901 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

 * Federal Court House and Post office for the Upper Midwest, the modern-day "Landmark Center", St. Paul, Minnesota, designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke, is completed.
 * Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by John McArthur Jr., is completed, the world's tallest occupied masonry building.
 * Stolp Town Hall, in modern-day Słupsk, Poland, designed by Karl Zaar with Rudolf Vahl, is opened.
 * Germantown Junction station, North Philadelphia, designed by Theophilus P. Chandler Jr., is completed.
 * Moscow Vindavsky railway station, designed by Stanislav Brzhozovsky, is opened.
 * Washington Union Station, designed by Daniel Burnham and W. Pierce Anderson, is commissioned.
 * Union Trust Company Building in Providence, Rhode Island, designed by Stone, Carpenter & Willson, is completed.
 * Postal Savings Bank building (Postatakarékpénztár), Budapest, designed by Ödön Lechner, is completed.
 * Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York, designed by Nikola Tesla and Stanford White is begun.
 * Willits House in Highland Park, Illinois, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
 * Deanery Garden in Sonning, England, designed by Edwin Lutyens with garden by Gertrude Jekyll, is completed.
 * Langer House in Vienna, designed by Jože Plečnik, is completed.
 * Whitechapel Art Gallery in east London, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, is opened.
 * Horniman Museum in south London, designed by C. Harrison Townsend, is completed.
 * Génin-Louis Grain Shop in Nancy, designed by Henry Gutton and his nephew Henri Gutton, is built.
 * Vaxelaire Department Store in Nancy, designed by Émile André and Eugène Vallin, is completed.
 * Jakarta Cathedral in the Dutch East Indies, completed by M. J. Hulswit following a design of 1891 by Pastor Antonius Dijkmans, is consecrated.
 * Erlöserkirche, Munich, designed by Theodor Fischer, is consecrated.
 * Zuoz Bridge, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart, is built.
 * The Glasgow International Exhibition (1901) is held with new architecture by James Millar and Charles Rennie Mackintosh and transplanted mock Tudor cottages from Port Sunlight.

Awards

 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal: Not awarded
 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean Hulot

Publications

 * Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin – The Art of Building a Home

Births

 * January 25 – Pablo Antonio, Filipino architect (died 1975)
 * February 20 – Louis Kahn, American architect (died 1974)
 * April 11 – Bertalan Árkay, Hungarian architect (died 1971)
 * April 12 – Thomas Sharp, English urban planner (died 1978)
 * June 23 – Amyas Connell, New Zealand-born architect (died 1980)
 * September 8 – Judith Ledeboer, Dutch-born English architect (died 1990)

Deaths

 * James Brooks, English Gothic Revival architect (born 1825)
 * May 25 – J. M. Brydon, British architect (born 1840)