1928_in_architecture

The year 1928 in architecture involved some significant events.

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.

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).

Events

• Congrès Internationaux d\'Architecture Moderne initiated by Le Corbusier.
• Hannes Meyer succeeds Walter Gropius as head of the Bauhaus school.

Births

• September 8 - Fumihiko Maki
• December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser (died 2000)
• Alison Smithson (died 1993)
• Paulo Mendes da Rocha - Pritzker Prize laureate 2006

Deaths

• December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh (born 1868)

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