From 1928 to 1948, art competitions were part of the Olympic Games. In this post an overview of all winners in the categories Architecture and Town Planning.
Architecture
Olympics | Gold medal | Silver medal | Bronze medal |
Stockholm 1912 | Eugène-Edouard Monod and Alphonse Laverrière (SUI) Building plan of a modern stadium |
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Antwerp 1920 | – | Holger Sinding-Larsen (NOR) Project for a gymnastics school |
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Paris 1924 | – | Alfréd Hajós and Dezső Lauber (HUN) Plan for a stadium |
Julien Médecin (MON) Stadium for Monte Carlo |
Amsterdam 1928 | Jan Wils (NED) Olympic Stadium at Amsterdam |
Ejnar Mindedal Rasmussen (DEN) Swimming pool at Ollerup |
Jacques Lambert (FRA) Stadium at Versailles |
Los Angeles 1932 | Gustave Saacké, Pierre Montenot, Pierre Bailly (FRA) Design for a “Cirque pour Toros” |
John Russell Pope (USA) Design for the Payne Whitney Gymnasium, New Haven, Conn. |
Richard Konwiarz (GER) Design for a “Schlesierkampfbahn” in the Sport Park of Breslau |
Berlin 1936 | Hermann Kutschera (AUT) Skiing Stadium |
Werner March (GER) Reich Sport Field |
Hermann Stiegholzer and Herbert Kastinger (AUT) Sporting Centre in Vienna |
London 1948 | Adolf Hoch (AUT) “Skisprungschanze auf dem Kobenzl” |
Alfred Rinesch (AUT) “Watersports Centre in Carinthia” |
Nils Olsson (SWE) “Baths and Sporting Hall for Gothenburg” |
Town Planning
Olympics | Gold medal | Silver medal | Bronze medal |
Amsterdam 1928 | Alfred Hensel (GER) Stadium at Nuremberg |
Jacques Lambert (FRA) Stadium at Versailles |
Max Laeuger (GER) Municipal Park at Hamburg |
Los Angeles 1932 | John Hughes (GBR) Design for a Sports and Recreation Centre with Stadium, for the City of Liverpool |
Jens Klemmensen (DEN) Design for a Stadium and Public Park |
André Verbeke (BEL) Design for a “Marathon Park” |
Berlin 1936 | Werner March and Walter March (GER) Reich Sport Field |
Charles Downing Lay (USA) Marine Park, Brooklyn |
Theo Nußbaum (GER) Municipal Planning and Sporting Centre in Cologne |
London 1948 | Yrjö Lindegren (FIN) “The Centre of Athletics in Varkaus, Finland” |
Werner Schindler and Edy Knupfer (SUI) “Swiss Federal Sports and Gymnastics Training Centre” |
Ilmari Niemeläinen (FIN) “The Athletic Centre in Kemi, Finland” |
Source: Art competitions at the Summer Olympics, Wikipedia (last visited Mar. 6, 2019).