1928 in architecture
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The year 1928 in architecture involved some significant events.
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[edit] Buildings
- First Dymaxion House is designed by Richard Buckminster Fuller.
- The Royal Horticultural Society New Building, a second exhibition hall for the RHS, designed by Easton & Robertson is completed. Located in Westminster, London, it was the first in the UK to have a parabolic curved concrete roof structure.
- Villa Savoye in Poissy-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier is completed.
- Work is completed on the second Goetheanum designed by Rudolph Steiner.
- Rusakov Workers' Club in Moscow, designed by Konstantin Melnikov is completed.
- The Großmarkthalle at Frankfurt am Main, by Martin Elsaesser, is completed.
[edit] Awards
- Olympic gold medal - Jan Wils of the Netherlands for Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.
- Olympic silver medal - Einar Mindedal Rasmussen of Denmark for Swimming pool at Ollerup.
- Olympic bronze medal - Jacques Lambert of France for Stadium at Versailles.
- Royal Gold Medal - Guy Dawber.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).
[edit] Events
- Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne initiated by Le Corbusier.
- Hannes Meyer succeeds Walter Gropius as head of the Bauhaus school.
[edit] Births
- September 8 - Fumihiko Maki
- December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser (died 2000)
- Alison Smithson (died 1993)
- Paulo Mendes da Rocha - Pritzker Prize laureate 2006
[edit] Deaths
- December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh (born 1868)fr:1928 en architecture
