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dwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius die. 1968 Mies van der Rohe's New National Gallery in Berlin nished. 1967 Expo 67 in Montreal features the American pavilion, a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller, and the Habitat 67 housing complex designed by Moshe Safdie. 1966 The Gateway Arch by Eero Saarinen is nished in St. Louis, Missouri. 1965 NASA's Cape Canaveral VAB, the Niagara Skylon Tower, the Tel-Aviv Shalom Meir tower and the Salk Institute all open. 1964 The Unisphere heads New York World's Fair. 1963 The Palace of Assembly at Chandigarh, India, is nished. 1962 Seattle Space needle & TWA Terminal by Saarinen at JFK are opened. 1961 Louis Kahn nishes the Richards Medical Building at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 1960 Lucio Costa & Oscar Niemeyer plan buildings of Brasilia, new capital of Brazil.[edit]

1959 Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York is nished after 16 years of work on the project. 1958 The Seagram Building in New York designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson is completed. 1957 The Interbau 57 exposition in Berlin features structures by Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius and his The Architects' Collaborative (TAC), and an unit by Le Corbusier. 1956 Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is nished. 1955 Completion of Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut chapel at Ronchamp, France. 1954 Louis Kahn nishes his Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. 1953 Completion of the United Nations Headquarters in New York by a design team headed by Wallace Harrison and Max Abramowitz. 1952 Le Corbusier completes his Unit d'Habitation in Marseilles. 1951 Mies van der Rohe's Lake Shore Drive Apartments completed in Chicago. 1950 Eames House completed in Santa Monica, California, designed by Charles and Ray Eames.

1949 Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut designed by Philip Johnson. 1948 Pietro Belluschi completes the Equitable Building in Portland, Oregon. 1947 Alvar Aalto builds the Baker House dormitories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1946 Le Corbusier draws up plans for La Rochelle-La Pallice, while his efforts to redesign Saint-Di-desVosges (both cities in France) are foiled. 1945 John Entenza launches the Case Study Houses Program through his post as editor of Arts & Architecture magazine. 1944 Frank Lloyd Wright builds the research tower for his Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin. 1943 Oscar Niemeyer completes his Pampulha project in Brazil. 1942 Vichy rejects Le Corbusier's Obus E plan for Algiers. 1941 Le Corbusier offers his services to the Vichy regime. 1940 Peter Behrens dies.

1939 The 1939 World's Fair in New York includes the Finnish Pavilion by Alvar Aalto and the Brazilian Pavilion by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. 1938 Frank Lloyd Wright purchases 800 acres (3.2 km2) of land 26 miles away from Phoenix, and begins to build Taliesin West, his winter home, in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA 1937 Wright completes his house Fallingwater, at Bear Run, Pennsylvania. 1936 Frank Lloyd Wright designs his monumental inward-looking Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, USA. 1935 Cass Gilbert's United States Supreme Court Building is posthumously nished. 1934 Frank Lloyd Wright draws up plans for his Broadacre City, a decentralized urban metropolis. 1933 The Bauhaus closes under Nazi pressure. 1932 The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York holds its exhibition on modern architecture, coining the term "International Style." 1931 The Empire State Building, designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, becomes the tallest building in the world. 1930 William Van Alen completes the Chrysler Building, an Art Deco skyscraper in New York, USA.

1920s [edit] 1910s [edit] 1900s [edit] 1890s 1929 Barcelona Pavilion designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. 1928 Hector Guimard builds his last house in Paris. 1927 The Weissenhof Estate, an exhibition of apartment houses designed by leading modern architects, held at Stuttgart, Germany. 1926 Antoni Gaud and Louis Majorelle die. 1925 Bauhaus at Dessau designed by Walter Gropius. 1924 Gerrit Rietveld completes the Schrder House in Utrecht. 1923 Le Corbusier publishes Vers une architecture (Toward an Architecture), a summary of his ideas. 1922 Monument to the Third International designed by Vladimir Tatlin (unbuilt). 1921 Frank Lloyd Wright completes his Hollyhock House for Aline Barnsdall in Los Angeles, begun in 1917. 1920 The Einstein Tower in Potsdam, designed by Erich Mendelsohn, is completed.

1919 Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. 1918 Birth of Jrn Utzon, designer of the Sydney Opera House. 1917 Georges Biet's Art Nouveau house and apartment building in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle is severely damaged by combat shells, but will be rebuilt nearly exactly as before in 1922. 1916 De Stijl movement founded in the Netherlands. 1915 Le Corbusier completes studies for his Dom-ino Houses. 1914 Walter Gropius designs his Fagus Factory. 1913 Cass Gilbert completes the Woolworth Building in New York. 1912 Frank Lloyd Wright begins work on the Avery Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois. 1911 Josef Hoffmann completes the Palais Stoclet in Brussels. 1910 Gaud nishes the Casa Mil in Barcelona.

1909 Frank Lloyd Wright completes the Robie House near Chicago. 1908 Adolf Loos publishes his essay "Ornament and Crime". 1907 Gaud completes the Casa Batll in Barcelona. 1906 Lucien Weissenburger completes his own house, a striking example of the Art Nouveau style in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. 1905 Wright designs Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois. 1904 Otto Wagner completes his Post Ofce Savings Bank Building in Vienna. 1903 Josef Hoffmann nishes the Moser House in Vienna. 1902 Otto Wagner's Viennese Stadtbahn railway system is completed. 1901 Peter Behrens completes his house at the Art Nouveau colony at Darmstadt, Germany. 1900 The Gare d'Orsay, now the famous Muse d'Orsay, is built in Paris by Victor Laloux.

1899 Hector Guimard is commissioned to design the edicules for the Paris Mtropolitain, which have become a hallmark of Art Nouveau design. 1898 Victor Horta designs his own house, now the Horta Museum. 1897 Hendrik Berlage designs his Amsterdam Stock Exchange. 1896 Eugne Vallin completes his own house and studio in Nancy (France), which is the rst of many Art Nouveau structures built there by the members of the cole de Nancy. 1895 The Biltmore Estate, the largest house in the USA, is completed for the Vanderbilt family in Asheville, North Carolina. 1894 Louis Sullivan builds the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, NY, USA. 1893 Victor Horta builds what is widely considered the rst full-edged Art Nouveau structure, the Htel Tassel, in Brussels. 1892 Modernist architect Richard Neutra is born. 1891 Louis Sullivan completes his Wainwright Building in Saint Louis. 1890 Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler build the Auditorium Building in Chicago.

1880s [edit] 1870s [edit] 1860s [edit] 1850s 1859 Birth of Louis Majorelle and Cass Gilbert. 1858 The competition to design Central Park in New York is won by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. 1857 Founding of the American Institute of Architects. 1856 Louis Sullivan and Eugne Vallin are born. 1855 The Palais d'Industrie is built for the World's Fair in Paris. 1854 1853 Baron Haussmann becomes prefect of the Seine dpartement and begins his vast urban renovations of Paris. 1852 Antoni Gaud is born. 1851 The Crystal Palace designed by Joseph Paxton. 1850 Lluis Domnech Montaner and John W. Root are born. 1889 The 1889 Paris exhibition showcases some of the new technologies of iron, steel, and glass, including the Eiffel Tower. 1888 The Exposicin Universal de Barcelona (1888) displays many buildings by Llus Domnech i Montaner and other Catalan architects. 1887 H. H. Richardson's Marshall Field Store in Chicago is completed. 1886 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is born. 1885 William Le Baron Jenney builds the rst metal-frame skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building, in Chicago. 1884 Gaud is given the commission for the Sagrada Famlia in Barcelona, which he will work on until 1926. 1883 Antoni Gaud completes his Casa Vicens in Barcelona. 1882 1881 The Natural History Museum in London opens. 1880 Cologne Cathedral is nally completed after 632 years.

1879 Louis Sullivan joins Dankmar Adler's rm in Chicago. 1878 Work begins on the Herrenchiemsee in Bavaria, designed by Georg Dollman. 1877 St Pancras railway station in London, by Sir George Gilbert Scott, is completed. 1876 Construction is nished on the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, designed by Gottfried Semper. 1875 The Opra Garnier is completed in Paris. 1874 Completion of the California State Capitol in Sacramento, California. 1873 Scots' Church in Melbourne, Australia is nished. 1872 The Albert Memorial in London, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, is opened. 1871 The Great Chicago Fire destroys most of the city, sparking a building boom there. 1870 Birth of Adolf Loos.

1869 Birth of Georges Biet. 1868 Peter Behrens is born. 1868 The Gyeongbokgung of Korea is reconstructed. 1867 Frank LLoyd Wright is born. William Le Baron Jenney opens his architectural practice in Chicago. 1866 Completion of the St Pancras Hotel in London by Sir George Gilbert Scott. 1865 Birth of French architect Paul Charbonnier. 1864 French Art Nouveau architect Jules Lavirotte is born. 1863 U. S. Capitol building dome in Washington, D.C., is completed. 1862 Construction begins on Henri Labrouste's reading room at the Bibliothque Nationale de France (site Richelieu). 1861 Victor Horta is born. 1860 Construction on Longwood, the largest octagonal residence in the USA, is begun in Natchez, Mississippi.