1928 In Architecture

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.

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

Events

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

Births

• Alison Smithson (died 1993)

Deaths

• Charles Rennie Mackintosh (born 1868)

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