1925 in architecture

The year 1925 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

 * April–October – International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes) in Paris.
 * May 25 – Second Madison Square Garden (the version built 1890 and designed by Stanford White) is closed on this date and demolished shortly after.
 * St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church (12th century) is shipped from Sacramenia, Segovia, Spain to the United States by William Randolph Hearst.

Buildings opened

 * November 18 – Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, designed by Delano & Aldrich opens. 4,800 people come to see the building on opening day, followed by 3,000 people the next day.

Buildings completed

 * Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D.C.), designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton, opens.
 * Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), designed by Yehuda Magidovitch, is completed.
 * Administration Building at Texas Technological College (modern-day Texas Tech University) in Lubbock, Texas, designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick, opens.
 * Altare della Patria (Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II) in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi (died 1905) in 1884, is completed.
 * Uppståndelsekapellet (Resurrection Chapel), Skogskyrkogården (Woodland Cemetery), Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz, is built.
 * Villa Le Trident at Théoule-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, designed by Barry Dierks, is built.
 * Government House of Thailand, in Bangkok, then known as Baan Norasingha (บ้านนรสิงห์), designed by Corrado Feroci.

Awards

 * AIA Gold Medal – Edwin Lutyens; Bertram Goodhue.
 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Giles Gilbert Scott.
 * Prix de Rome, architecture: Alfred Audoul.

Births

 * January 14 – Aarno Ruusuvuori, Finnish architect (died 1992)
 * January 17 – Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian American architect (died 2017)
 * April 6 – Paul Ritter, Australian architect, town planner, sociologist, artist and author (died 2010)
 * May 18 – Justus Dahinden, Swiss architect and writer
 * May 31 – Frei Otto, German Pritzker Prize-winning architect and structural engineer (died 2015)
 * June 25 – Robert Venturi, American Pulitzer Prize-winning architect (died 2018)
 * August 20 – Henning Larsen, Danish architect (died 2013)

Deaths

 * January 8 – Stewart Henbest Capper, British Arts and Crafts architect (born 1859)
 * April 13 – August Endell, German Jugendstil architect and designer (born 1871)
 * September 13 – Emily Elizabeth Holman, American architect (born 1854)
 * December 26 – Jan Letzel, Czech architect (born 1880)