- 1928 in architecture
The year 1928 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
* First
Dymaxion House is designed byRichard Buckminster Fuller .
* TheRoyal Horticultural Society New Building , a second exhibition hall for the RHS, designed by "Easton & Robertson" is completed. Located inWestminster ,London , it was the first in the UK to have a parabolic curved concrete roof structure.
*Villa Savoye inPoissy-sur-Seine , designed byLe Corbusier is completed.
* Work is completed on the secondGoetheanum designed byRudolph Steiner .
*Rusakov Workers' Club inMoscow , designed byKonstantin Melnikov is completed.
* TheGroßmarkthalle atFrankfurt am Main , byMartin Elsaesser , is completed.Awards
* Olympic gold medal -
Jan Wils of theNetherlands for "Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam".
* Olympic silver medal -Einar Mindedal Rasmussen ofDenmark for "Swimming pool at Ollerup".
* Olympic bronze medal -Jacques Lambert ofFrance for "Stadium at Versailles".
*Royal Gold Medal -Guy Dawber .
*Grand Prix de Rome , architecture: (unknown).Events
*
Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne initiated byLe Corbusier .
*Hannes Meyer succeedsWalter Gropius as head of theBauhaus school.Births
*
September 8 -Fumihiko Maki
*December 15 -Friedensreich Hundertwasser (died 2000)
*Alison Smithson (died 1993)
*Paulo Mendes da Rocha -Pritzker Prize laureate 2006Deaths
*
December 10 -Charles Rennie Mackintosh (born 1868)
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