1948 in architecture

The year 1948 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

 * Le Modulor by Le Corbusier is published.

Buildings

 * September 10 – The Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States is dedicated.
 * December – Carswell House in Newark, Delaware, by Edward Durell Stone, completed.
 * Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado completed.
 * V. C. Morris Gift Shop (later, Xanadu Gallery) in San Francisco, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
 * Morannedd Café (later, Dylan's), Criccieth Esplanade, Wales, by Clough Williams-Ellis, built (approximate date).
 * Mampong Teacher's Training College and Prempeh College, Kumasi, both in Ghana, by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew.
 * Burleigh Primary School, Cheshunt, England, by Mary Crowley, opened.
 * Equitable Building (Portland, Oregon), by Pietro Belluschi, completed.
 * Holy Family Old Cathedral (Anchorage, Alaska), by Augustine A. Porreca, is completed.
 * Calvert Manor apartment building in Arlington, Virginia, by Mihran Mesrobian, built.
 * Bachman House in Chicago, remodeling by Bruce Goff, completed.
 * Ledbetter House in Norman, Oklahoma, by Bruce Goff, completed.
 * Elkay Apartments in Los Angeles, California, by Richard Neutra, built.
 * Herman T. Mossberg Residence in South Bend, Indiana, by Frank Lloyd Wright, built.
 * Herbert and Katherine Jacobs Second House in Madison, Wisconsin, by Frank Lloyd Wright, completed.
 * Jack Lamberson House in Oskaloosa, Iowa, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built.
 * Haines Shoe House in Hallam, Pennsylvania, built.

Awards

 * AIA Gold Medal – Charles Donagh Maginnis
 * Olympic gold medal – Adolf Hoch of Austria for Ski jumping hill on the Kobenzl
 * Olympic silver medal – Alfred Rinesch of Austria for Watersports centre in Karinthia
 * Olympic bronze medal – Nils Olsson of Sweden for Baths and sporting hall in Gothenburg
 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Auguste Perret

Births

 * March 15 – Gavin Stamp, British architectural historian (died 2017)
 * October 6 – Ken Yeang, Malaysian ecoarchitect
 * December 3 – Maxwell Hutchinson, English architect
 * Louis D. Astorino, American architect
 * Miguel Cabrera Cabrera, Spanish architect and politician working in the Canaries
 * Michael Sorkin, American architect and theorist (died 2020)

Deaths

 * January 19
 * Ignjat Fischer, Croatian architect (born 1870)
 * Tony Garnier, French architect (born 1869)
 * January 22 – Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas, English architect (born 1868)
 * February 2 – Sir Charles Herbert Reilly, English architect and teacher (born 1874)
 * March 29 – Olev Siinmaa, Estonian-Swedish architect (born 1881)
 * June 16 – Horace Field, English architect (born 1861)
 * August 1 – George Skipper, English architect (born 1856)
 * August 20 – Emery Roth, Hungarian-born American architect (born 1871)
 * September 3 – Frank Mills Andrews, American architect (born 1867)
 * October – Benedict Williamson, English-born architect and Roman Catholic priest (born 1868)
 * October 1 – Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, Polish architect (born 1883)
 * October 27 – Albert Randolph Ross, American architect (born 1868)
 * John Robert Dillon, American architect