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1 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.

2 Awards

• Olympic gold medal - Jan Wils of the Netherlands for Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam
• Olympic silver medal - Einar Mindedal Rasmussen of DenmarkKongeriget Danmark ( In Detail) Motto of the Queen: Guds hjaelp, Folkets kaerlighed, Danmarks styrke (English: God's help, the love of the people, Denmark's strength) Official language Danish Capital Copenhagen Kobenhavn Monarch Margrethe II Prime Ministe for Swimming pool at Ollerup
• Olympic bronze medal - Jacques Lambert of FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. for Stadium at Versailles

3 Events

• Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne initiated by Le Corbusier.
• Hannes Meyer succeeds Walter GropiusWalter Adolph Gropius ( May 18, 1883 July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus. Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third son of a building advisor to the government with the same name, and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber ( 1855- 19 as head of the BauhausAlternate use: There is also a British rock band named Bauhaus. Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it developed and taught. school.

4 Births

• Alison SmithsonEnglish architect Alison Smithson ( 1928- 1993) formed an architectural partnership with her husband Peter, and is often associated with the Brutalist style. Smithson was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. While studying architecture at Durham University (died 1993)

5 Deaths

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