1938 in architecture

The year 1938 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

 * First woman elected to Royal Institute of British Architects, Josephine Miller.

Buildings opened

 * July – Saltdean Lido and Ocean Hotel, Saltdean, East Sussex, England, both designed by R.W.H. Jones.
 * October 22 – Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, England, designed by Edward Maufe.
 * October 29 – City Hall, Norwich, England, designed by C. H. James and S. R. Pierce.
 * November 14 – Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Buildings completed

 * The Reich Chancellery in Berlin, designed by Albert Speer (rebuilt).
 * Great Mosque of Asmara in Italian Eritrea, designed by Guido Ferrazza.
 * Church of the Epiphany, Gipton, Leeds, England, designed by Nugent Cachemaille-Day.
 * Metro Theatre (Toronto), designed by Kaplan and Sprachman.
 * Finsbury Health Centre, London, designed by Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton Group.
 * Metropolitan Water Board Laboratories, London, designed by Howard Robertson.
 * Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island, San Francisco Bay, California, USA, designed by George W. Kelham and William Peyton Day.
 * Palace of Justice, Lima, Peru.
 * City Hall, Mar del Plata, Argentina, designed by Alejandro Bustillo.
 * Manchester Town Hall Extension, England, designed by Vincent Harris in 1927.
 * São Bento Palace, Lisbon, Portugal.
 * Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, designed by Henry van de Velde.
 * Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Finland, designed by Yrjö Lindegren and Toivo Jäntti.
 * Brackenfell (house), Brampton, Carlisle, England, designed by Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight.
 * The Homewood (house) near Esher, Surrey, England, designed by Patrick Gwynne (for his parents).
 * Charters House, Berkshire, England, designed by Adie, Button and Partners.
 * Hamstone House, St George's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey, designed by Ian Forbes.
 * Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, England, the last great country house designed by Edwin Lutyens (with his son Robert).
 * Houses in Hampshire, Sussex and at Eton, Berkshire in England by Marcel Breuer and F. R. S. Yorke.
 * Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, designed by Walter Gropius with Marcel Breuer.
 * Belvedere Court (apartments) in East Finchley, London, designed by Ernst L. Freud.
 * Josephine M. Hagerty House, Cohasset, Massachusetts, designed by Walter Gropius with Marcel Breuer.
 * Luma Tower, built as British Luma Co-Operative Electric Lamp factory, Glasgow, designed by Cornelius Armour.
 * Fiat Tagliero Building, Asmara, Italian Eritrea, designed by Giuseppe Pettazzi.

Other

 * Construction work begins on
 * Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra, California, designed by Marston & Maybury.
 * Council House, Bristol, England, designed by Vincent Harris.

Publications

 * Lewis Mumford – The Culture of Cities

Awards

 * AIA Gold Medal – Paul Philippe Cret
 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Ivar Tengbom
 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Henry Bernard

Births

 * April 16 – Wolf Hilbertz, German-born futurist architect, inventor and marine scientist (died 2007)
 * May 12 – Terry Farrell, English architect, designer of the KK100 and SIS Building
 * July 10 – Paul Andreu, French airport architect (died 2018)
 * July 14 – Moshe Safdie, Israeli/Canadian architect, urban designer, educator, theorist and author
 * September 3 – Richard MacCormac, British architect (died 2014)
 * November 30 – Andrea Branzi, Italian architect and designer
 * December 30 – Susan Maxman, née Abel, American architect

Deaths

 * February 25 – W. D. Caröe, English-born ecclesiastical architect (born 1857)
 * July 2 – John James Burnet, Scottish architect (born 1857)
 * October 30 – Charles Klauder, American architect (born 1872)
 * December 24 – Bruno Taut, German-born architect and urban planner (born 1880)
 * December 25 – Theodor Fischer, German architect (born 1862)