1916 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Colony Club at Park Avenue & 62nd Streer in New York City by Delano & Aldrich with interiors by Elsie de Wolfe, later the East Coast school of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, completed.
• Main building of St Hugh's College, Oxford in England by Herbert Tudor Buckland and William Haywood completed.
• Church of St Paul, Liverpool in England by Giles Gilbert Scott completed.
• Holland House in the City of London, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed.

  Events

• c. November – The Incorporation of Architects in Scotland founded in Edinburgh.
• Publication of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs is initiated, continuing until 1940.

  Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Robert Rowand Anderson.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held.

  Births

• January 23 – Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, German architect
• April 4 – Robert S. McMillan, American architect
• May 4 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian urban theorist
• May 21 – Leonard Manasseh, Singapore-born British architect
• June 29 – John M. Johansen, American architect
• July 1 – Lawrence Halprin, American architect
• August 6 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese architect and Prime Minister
• November 1 – John C. Harkness, American architect
• November 9 – Richard Tyler, British architect
• Dewi-Prys Thomas, British architect

  Deaths

• March 22 – Ferdinand Fellner, Austrian architect
• June – Addison Hutton, American architect
• July 22 – Hans Jørgen Holm, Danish architect
• October 10 – Antonio Sant'Elia, Italian architect
• December 22 – Gyula Pártos, Hungarian architect