Editing 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 and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1928}}
===Buildings opened===
[[File:Stockholms-stadsbibliotek-2003-04-14.jpg|thumb|[[Stockholm Public Library]], Sweden]]
* [[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]].<ref>[http://saint-marc.ws/ Official website.]</ref>
* [[October 25]] – [[Großmarkthalle]] at [[Frankfurt am Main]], designed by [[Martin Elsaesser]].

===Buildings completed===
[[File:Picswiss SO-17-02.jpg|thumb|Second [[Goetheanum]] in [[Dornach]], Switzerland]]
* 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 Partners <ref> Dictionary of Scottish architects</ref>

==Births==
[[File:Hundertwasser nz 1998 hg.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Friedensreich Hundertwasser]]]]
* [[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
* [[October 25]] – [[Paulo Mendes da Rocha]], Brazilian architect [[Pritzker Prize]] laureate 2006
* [[December 15]] – [[Friedensreich Hundertwasser]], Austrian architect and artist (died [[2000 in architecture|2000]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[James Birrell]], Australian architect

==Deaths==
* [[January 23]] – [[A. E. Doyle]], American architect (born [[1877 in architecture|1877]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Graf|first=Victor|title=A.E. Doyle: He set the trend of Portland architecture in the '20s|newspaper=[[The Oregonian|The Sunday Oregonian]]|date=February 5, 1978|at=''Northwest Magazine'' section, pp. 4–7}}</ref>
* [[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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