Buildings

• Unity Temple
  Unity Temple
  Unity Temple is a Unitarian Universalist church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation. It was designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and built between 1905 and 1908. Unity Temple is considered to be one of Wright's most important...
  
   in Oak Park, Illinois
  Oak Park, Illinois
  Oak Park, Illinois is a suburb bordering the west side of the city of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is the twenty-fifth largest municipality in Illinois. Oak Park has easy access to downtown Chicago due to public transportation such as the Chicago 'L' Blue and Green lines,...
  
  , designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
  Frank Lloyd Wright
  Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
  
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• Construction begins on the current Great Mosque of Djenné
  Great Mosque of Djenné
  The Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud brick or adobe building in the world and is considered by many architects to be the greatest achievement of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style, with definite Islamic influences. The mosque is located in the city of Djenné, Mali on the flood plain...
  
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• Lucien Weissenburger
  Lucien Weissenburger
  Lucien Weissenburger , was a French architect. He was one of the principal architects to work in the Art Nouveau style in Lorraine and a member of the board of directors of the École de Nancy....
  
   finishes the Weissenburger House for himself at 1, boulevard Charles V
  Charles V of France
  Charles V , called the Wise, was King of France from 1364 to his death in 1380 and a member of the House of Valois...
  
   in Nancy
• Ivan Vazov National Theatre
  Ivan Vazov National Theatre
  The Ivan Vazov National Theatre is Bulgaria's national theatre, as well as the oldest and most authoritative theatre in the country and one of the important landmarks of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria...
  
  , Sofia
  Sofia
  Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
  
  , Bulgaria
  Bulgaria
  Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
  
  
• McKim, Mead, and White
  McKim, Mead, and White
  McKim, Mead & White was a prominent American architectural firm at the turn of the twentieth century and in the history of American architecture. The firm's founding partners were Charles Follen McKim , William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White...
  
   architects start to build Waiting room, Pennsylvania Station (New York City)
  Pennsylvania Station (New York City)
  Pennsylvania Station—commonly known as Penn Station—is the major intercity train station and a major commuter rail hub in New York City. It is one of the busiest rail stations in the world, and a hub for inbound and outbound railroad traffic in New York City. The New York City Subway system also...
  
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Awards

• Royal Gold Medal
  Royal Gold Medal
  The Royal Gold Medal for architecture is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch, in recognition of an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture....
  
   - Lawrence Alma-Tadema
  Lawrence Alma-Tadema
  Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA was a Dutch painter.Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there...
  
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• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

• June 2 - Carlo Scarpa
  Carlo Scarpa
  Carlo Scarpa , was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape, and the history of Venetian culture, and Japan. Scarpa was also a glass and furniture designer of note....
  
   (died 1978)
• July 8 - Philip Johnson
  Philip Johnson
  Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an influential American architect.In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later , as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture...
  
   (died 2005)

Deaths

• June 25 - Stanford White
  Stanford White
  Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found...
  
   (born 1853
  1853 in architecture
  The year 1853 in architecture involved some significant events.-Awards:* Royal Gold Medal - Robert Smirke.* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: .-Births:* February 26 - Antonio Rivas Mercado...
  
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