1946 in architecture

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The year 1946 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings

Original (right) and reconstructed (left) BISF houses in Port Glasgow

• Hudson's department store in Detroit, Michigan, United States is completed.
• BISF houses in the United Kingdom, designed by Frederick Gibberd.

Events

• J. M. Richards publishes his anatomy of England's suburbia, The Castles on the Ground, illustrated by John Piper.
• Thomas Sharp publishes The Anatomy of the Village.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Patrick Abercrombie.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Guillaume Gillet.

Births

• May 12 - Daniel Libeskind, Polish architect, artist and set designer
• date unknown - Richard Johnson, Australian architect

Deaths

• February 4 – Herbert Baker, British architect based in South Africa (born 1862)
• December 16 – Zachary Taylor Davis, Chicago-based US architect (born 1872)