1928 in architecture
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The year 1928 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- February - Hannes Meyer succeeds Walter Gropius as head of the Bauhaus school.
- June - Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne is initiated by Le Corbusier.
- Le Corbusier wins all three competitions for design of the Tsentrosoyuz building in Moscow.
- Léon Azéma is appointed Architect of the City of Paris.
Buildings opened
- January 1 - Milam Building in San Antonio, Texas, designed by George Rodney Willis, the tallest brick and reinforced concrete structure and first office building with built-in air conditioning in the United States at this date.
- March 31 - Stockholm Public Library in Sweden, designed by Gunnar Asplund.
- October 6 - Collège Saint Marc, Alexandria, Egypt, designed by Léon Azéma.[1]
- October 25 - Großmarkthalle at Frankfurt am Main, designed by Martin Elsaesser.
Buildings completed
- First Dymaxion House is designed by Buckminster Fuller.
- The Royal Horticultural Society New Building, a second exhibition hall for The Royal Horticultural Society, designed by Easton & Robertson, is completed in Westminster, London, the first in the United Kingdom to have a parabolic curved concrete roof structure.
- Second Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, designed by Rudolf Steiner.
- Rusakov Workers' Club in Moscow, USSR, designed by Konstantin Melnikov.
- Firestone Tyre Factory on the 'Golden Mile' of London's Great West Road, designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners in Art Deco style (demolished 1980).
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: Eugène Beaudouin.
Births
- June 28 - Alison Smithson, née Gill, English architect (died 1993)
- September 8 - Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect
- October 25 - Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect Pritzker Prize laureate 2006
- December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian architect and artist (died 2000)
- date unknown - James Birrell, Australian architect
Deaths
- January 23 - A. E. Doyle, American architect (born 1877[2]
- June 23 - Konstantīns Pēkšēns, Latvian-born architect (born 1859)
- December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish-born architect and designer (born 1868)
References
- ↑ Official website.
- ↑ Graf, Victor (February 5, 1978). "A.E. Doyle: He set the trend of Portland architecture in the '20s". The Sunday Oregonian. Northwest Magazine section, pp. 4–7.
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