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The year 1928 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
* 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.
* October 25 – Großmarkthalle at Frankfurt am Main, designed by Martin Elsaesser.
* The Royal Horticultural Society New Building, a second exhibition hall for The Royal Horticultural Society, designed by Easton & Robertson, is completed in City of Westminster, 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 (London), Firestone Tyre Factory on the 'Golden Mile (Brentford), Golden Mile' of London's Great West Road, designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners in Art Deco style (demolished 1980 in architecture, 1980).
* :File:Suburban World.jpg, 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 National Bank Building, 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
* June 24 – Ivan Štraus, Bosnian architect (died 2018 in architecture, 2018)
* June 28 – Alison Smithson, née Gill, English architect (died 1993 in architecture, 1993)
* August 7 – Owen Luder, British architect (died 2021 in architecture, 2021)
* September 8 – Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect (died 2024)
* October 25 – Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect Pritzker Prize laureate 2006 (died 2021)
* December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian architect and artist (died 2000 in architecture, 2000)
* ''date unknown'' – James Birrell, Australian architect (died 2019)
Events
* February –Hannes Meyer
Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (18 November 1889 – 19 July 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930.
Early life
Meyer was born in Basel, Switzerland, trained as a mason, and practiced as an architect ...
succeeds Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (; 18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-born American architect and founder of the Bauhaus, Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of ...
as head of the Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the , was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined Decorative arts, crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., ...
school.
* June – Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne
The ''Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne'' (CIAM), or International Congresses of Modern Architecture, was an organization founded in 1928 and disbanded in 1959, responsible for a series of events and congresses arranged across Europ ...
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.
* 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 City of Westminster, 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 (London), Firestone Tyre Factory on the 'Golden Mile (Brentford), Golden Mile' of London's Great West Road, designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners in Art Deco style (demolished 1980 in architecture, 1980).
* :File:Suburban World.jpg, 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 National Bank Building, 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 medallists in art competitions, 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 Institute of British Architects, RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Guy Dawber. * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: :fr:Eugène Beaudouin, Eugène Beaudouin. * Concrete house competition winner for the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, won by Frederick MacManus of Sir John Burnet and PartnersBirths
* June 24 – Ivan Štraus, Bosnian architect (died 2018 in architecture, 2018)
* June 28 – Alison Smithson, née Gill, English architect (died 1993 in architecture, 1993)
* August 7 – Owen Luder, British architect (died 2021 in architecture, 2021)
* September 8 – Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect (died 2024)
* October 25 – Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect Pritzker Prize laureate 2006 (died 2021)
* December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian architect and artist (died 2000 in architecture, 2000)
* ''date unknown'' – James Birrell, Australian architect (died 2019)
Deaths
* January 23 – A. E. Doyle, American architect (born 1877 in architecture, 1877) * June 23 – Konstantīns Pēkšēns, Latvian-born architect (born 1859 in architecture, 1859) * December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish-born architect and designer (born 1868 in architecture, 1868)References
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