Architecture, Designs For Town Planning, Open

A total of 94 works by 58 architects or architectural firms (with a total of 87 participants) from 14 countries were submitted for the two categories “Town Planning” and “Architectural Design”. The jury finally accepted 82 works for the competitions. The remaining project were exhibited “hors concours”. The exhibits for the two competitions “Town Planning” and “Architectural Design” were identical, but were assessed separately for both categories. Therefore, works that were not awarded with a medal cannot be attributed to either category.

In addition to the members listed above, Cultural officer Oswald Bieber (1874/1876-1955) and the future Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer (1905-1981) were supposed to be members of the jury according to the exhibition catalog, but were not listed in the final Official Report.

Werner March, much better known than his brother Walter March, won the contest with their design for the Reichssportfeld (Imperial Sports Field), which was the terrain on which many of the Olympic contests were held in 1936.

American landscape architect Charles Downing Lay won a silver medal for his designs for Marine Park Brooklyn, New York, while his colleague Theodor Nußbaum received a bronze medals for his Sports fields in the city area of Köln (Cologne).