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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

September 8 - Fumihiko Maki

December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser (died 2000 )

Alison Smithson (died 1993 )

DEATHS

December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh (born 1868 )