1928 in architecture

• 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 , 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. • October 25 – Großmarkthalle at Frankfurt am Main, designed by Martin Elsaesser. Buildings completed 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 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 ==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 (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) • date unknown – James Birrell, Australian architect (died 2019) ==Deaths==

• January 23 – A. E. Doyle, American architect (born 1877) • June 23 – Konstantīns Pēkšēns, Latvian-born architect (born 1859) • December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish-born architect and designer (born 1868) ==References==