1928 IN ARCHITECTURE

The year '1928 in architecture' involved some significant events.

Contents

Buildings

Awards

Events

Births

Deaths

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.

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

★ Congres 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)