1942 in architecture

The year 1942 in architecture involved some significant events.

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.
 * September – Alker Tripp publishes Town Planning and Road Traffic in England, advocating segregated roads.
 * An abridged version of the Athens Charter by Le Corbusier is published.

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.
 * Walthamstow Town Hall in London, designed by Philip Hepworth in 1932, is completed.
 * Wythenshawe Bus Garage in Manchester, England is completed.

Awards

 * RIBA 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 17 – Mārtiņš Nukša, Latvian architect and diplomat (born 1878; executed)
 * 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)
 * July 24 – Sir Edwin Cooper, English architect (born 1874)
 * 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)
 * Ernest George Trobridge, British architect (born 1884)