1915 in architecture

The year 1915 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings opened

 * April – The Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition, designed by Jan Letzel, is opened; it becomes the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
 * April 21 – Theatre Circo, Braga, Portugal.
 * November 6 – Tunkhannock Viaduct, Nicholson, Pennsylvania, designed by Abraham Burton Cohen.

Buildings completed

 * Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay, designed by George Wittet.
 * Kumarakottam Temple, Kanchipuram, India rebuilt.
 * Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, Yosemite Village, California.
 * Well Hall Estate for arsenal workers at Woolwich in south-east London, designed by Frank Baines.

Awards

 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frank Darling.
 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held.

Births

 * April 22 – Edward Larrabee Barnes, American architect (died 2004)
 * May 8 – Laurent Chappis, French architect and town planner (died 2013)
 * October 4 – Beverly Loraine Greene, African American architect (died 1957)
 * December 12 – Tobias Faber, Danish architect and academic (died 2010)
 * December 31 – George Pace, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1975)

Deaths

 * February 17 – George Franklin Barber, American residential architect (born 1854)
 * April 17 – Philip Webb, English architect (born 1831)
 * May 28 – Robert Chisholm, British "Indo-Saracenic" architect (born 1840)
 * June 25 – John James Clark, Australian architect (born 1838)
 * July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (born 1846)