1928 in architecture explained

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 and structures

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

• 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).
• Granada Theatre and Temple Israel (Minneapolis), designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan.
• First Dymaxion House is designed by Buckminster Fuller.
• Balluta Buildings, St. Julian's, Malta, designed by Giuseppe Psaila.
• Industrial Trust Company Building (aka "Superman Building") in Providence, Rhode Island, designed by Walker & Gillette.
• Petersdorff Department Store in Wrocław, designed by Erich Mendelsohn.
• Samuel-Novarro House in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California, designed by Lloyd Wright

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.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Guy Dawber.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Eugène Beaudouin.
• Concrete house competition winner for the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, won by Frederick MacManus of Sir John Burnet and Partners ^[2]

Births

• June 24 – Ivan Štraus, Bosnian architect (died 2018)
• June 28 – Alison Smithson, née Gill, English architect (died 1993)
• August 7 – Owen Luder, British architect (died 2021)
• 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^[3]
• June 23 – Konstantīns Pēkšēns, Latvian-born architect (born 1859)
• December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish-born architect and designer (born 1868)

Notes and References

1. http://saint-marc.ws/ Official website.
2. Dictionary of Scottish architects
3. News: Graf. Victor. A.E. Doyle: He set the trend of Portland architecture in the '20s. The Sunday Oregonian. February 5, 1978. Northwest Magazine section, pp. 4–7.