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This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in Architecture and related disciplines including Structural Engineering , Landscape Architecture and City Planning .

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Articles for each year (in bold text, below) are summarized here with a significant event as a reference point.

2000S

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2005 - Xanadu House demolished.

2004 - '' 30 St Mary Axe '' designed by Norman Foster . Seattle Central Library , by Rem Koolhaas and OMA , opens to the public.

2003 - Taipei 101 , designed by C.Y. Lee & Partners , becomes the tallest building in the world.

2002 - Simmons Hall dormitory at MIT completed.

2001 - Jewish Museum Berlin designed by Daniel Libeskind opens to the public.

2000 - The Emirates Towers are both completed.

1990S

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1998 - Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art by Steven Holl Architects, opens to the public.

1997 - '' Guggenheim Museum Bilbao '' designed by Frank Gehry .

1996 - Oscar Niemeyer completes the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.

1996 - Aronoff Center For Design And Art , University Of Cincinnati completed by Peter Eisenman .

1995 - Steven Holl Architects begin construction of St. Ignatius Chapel at Seattle University .

1994 - Building of the Basel Signal Box by Herzog And De Meuron

1993 - The Umeda Sky Building in Osaka City, Japan is completed.

1992 - The Bank Of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina is completed.

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1990 - Frederick Weisman Museum Of Art , University Of Minnesota completed by Frank Gehry .

1980S

1989 - I. M. Pei 's pyramid addition to the Louvre is opened.

1988 - MOMA Exhibition called Deconstructivist Architecture opens.

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1984 - Philip Johnson 's Sony Building opens in New York City

1983 - Xanadu House in Kissimmee opened.

1982 - The Portland Building in Portland, OR opens by Michael Graves

1981 - Richard Serra installs '' Tilted Arc '' in the Federal Plaza in New York City .

1980 - Santa Monica Place was constructed by Frank Gehry.

1970S

1979 - Charles Moore designs the Piazza D'Italia in New Orleans .

1978 - Charles Eames dies.

1977 - Frank Gehry redesigns his own house in Santa Monica, California .

1976 - The CN Tower in Toronto opens as the tallest freestanding structure on land.

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1974 - National Assembly Building in Dakka, Bangladesh , is completed.

1973 - The World Trade Center towers, designed by Minoru Yamasaki , are opened in New York.

1972 - Invisible Cities ( Italian : ''Le Città Invisibili'') is published.

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1970 - Construction begins on the Sears Tower in Chicago, designed by Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan (of Skidmore, Owings, And Merrill ).

1960S

1969 - Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Walter Gropius die.

1968 - Mies van der Rohe's New National Gallery in Berlin finished.

1967 - Expo '67 in Montréal 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 finished in St. Louis, Missouri .

1965 - Louis Kahn completes the Salk Institute in California.

1964 - Robert Venturi publishes his attack on modernism, '' Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture ''.

1963 - The Palace Of Assembly at Chandigarh, India , is finished.

1962 - The famed TWA Terminal at Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport ), designed by Eero Saarinen , is completed.

1961 - Louis Kahn finishes the Richards Medical Building at the University Of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia .

1960 - Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer lay out the city plan and government buildings for Brasilia , the new capital of Brazil.

1950S

1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright 's Guggenheim Museum in New York is finished after 16 years of work on the project.

1958 - Seagram's Building in New York designed by Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson .

1957 - The Interbau 57 exposition of apartment blocks in Berlin features structures by Alvar Aalto , Walter Gropius and his The Architects' Collaborative (TAC), and an '' Unité '' by Le Corbusier.

1956 - Crown Hall at the IIT , Chicago , designed by Mies van der Rohe, finished.

1955 - Completion of Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame-du-Haut chapel at Ronchamp, France .

1954 - Louis Kahn finishes his Yale University Art Center in New Haven, CT, USA.

1953 - Completion of the United Nations Headquarters in New York by a deisgn team headed by Wallace Harrison and Max Abramowitz .

1952 - Le Corbusier completes his Unité D'Habitation in Marseilles .

1951 - Mies van der Rohe's Lake Shore Drive Apartments completed in Chicago .

1950 - Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe finished.

1940S

1949 - Charles and Ray Eames build the Eames House , also known as Case Study House #8, in Pacific Palisades , CA, USA.

1948 - Pietro Belluschi completes the Equitable Building in Portland, Oregon .

1947 - Alvar Aalto builds his Baker House at MIT .

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1945 - Le Corbusier draws up plans for Saint-Dié-des-Vosges and La Rochelle - La Pallice , both in France .

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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.

1930S

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 .

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1937 - Frank Lloyd Wright completes his house Fallingwater , at Bear Run, Pennsylvania . Wright purchases 800 acres of land 26 miles away from Phoenix . Wright begins to build Taliesin West , his winter home, in Scottsdale, Arizona , USA

1936 - Glass Palace in Heerlen , the Netherlands finished. Frank Lloyd Wright designs his monumental inward-looking Johnson Wax Administration Center in Racine, Wisconsin .

1935 - Cass Gilbert 's United States Supreme Court Building is posthumously finished.

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

1929 - '' Barcelona Pavilion '' designed by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe .

1928 - Hector Guimard builds his last house in Paris.

1927 - The Weissenhof Seidlung , an exhibition of apartment houses designed by leading modern architects, held at Stuttgart, Germany .

1926 - Antoni Gaudí and Louis Majorelle die.

1925 - '' Bauhaus '' at Dessau designed by Walter Gropius .

1924 - Gerrit Rietveld completes the Schröder House in Utrecht .

1923 - Le Corbusier publishes '' Vers Une Architecture '' (English title: ''Towards A New 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 .

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1910S

1919 - Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany .

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1916 - De Stijl movement founded in the Netherlands .

1915 - Le Corbusier completes studies for his Dom-ino Houses .

1914 - Walter Gropius designs his Fagus Shoe Factory .

1913 - Cass Gilbert completes the Woolworth Building in New York.

1912 - Frank Lloyd Wright begins work on Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin .

1911 - Josef Hoffmann completes the Palais Stoclet in Brussels.

1910 - Gaudí finishes the Casa Milà in Barcelona.

1900S

1909 - Frank Lloyd Wright completes the Robie House near Chicago.

1908 - Adolf Loos publishes his essay " Ornament And Crime ".

1907 - Gaudí completes the Casa Batlló in Barcelona.

1906 - The Parc De Saurupt , a garden-city in Nancy, laid out in 1901 for private homes in the Art Nouveau style by Emile André and Henri Gutton , is essentially abandoned as a project.

1905 - Wright is designs Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois .

1904 - Otto Wagner completes his Post Office Savings Bank Building in Vienna.

1903 - Josef Hoffmann finishes 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 Musée D'Orsay , is built in Paris by Victor Laloux .

1890S

1899 - Hector Guimard is commissioned to design the edicules for the Paris Métropolitain , 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 - Eugène Vallin completes his own house and studio in Nancy ( France ), which is the first of many Art Nouveau structures built there by the members of the '' Ecole 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 first full-fledged Art Nouveau structure, the Hôtel Tassel , in Brussels .

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1891 - Louis Sullivan completes his Wainwright Building in Saint Louis .

1890 - Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler build the Auditorium Building in Chicago .

1880S

1889 - The 1889 Paris Exhibition showcases some of the new technologies of iron, steel, and glass, including the Eiffel Tower .

1888 - The 1888 World's Fair in Barcelona displays many buildings by Lluís Domènech 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 first metal-frame skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building , in Chicago.

1884 - Gaudí is given the commission for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, which he will work on until 1926 .

1883 - Antoni Gaudí completes his Casa Vicens in Barcelona.

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1879 - Louis Sullivan joins Dankmar Adler's firm in Chicago.

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1875 - The Opéra Garnier is completed in Paris.

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1871 - The Great Chicago Fire destroys most of the city, sparking a building boom there.

1870 - Birth of Adolf Loos.

1860S

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1868 - Peter Behrens is born.

1867 - William Le Baron Jenney opens his architectural practice in Chicago.

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1865 - Paul Charbonnier is born.

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1863 - U. S. Capitol building dome in Washington, D.C., is completed.

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1861 - Victor Horta is born.

1860 - Construction on Longwood , the largest Octagonal residence in the USA, is begun in Natchez, Mississippi .

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1859 - Birth of Louis Majorelle and Cass Gilbert.

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1856 - Louis Sullivan is born.

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1852 - Antoni Gaudí is born.

1851 - '' The Crystal Palace '' designed by Joseph Paxton .

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1847 - August 24 , birth of Charles Follen McKim (died 1909 ).

1846 - September 4 , birth of Daniel Burnham of the firm Burnham and Root.

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1842 - The Église De La Madeleine is finally consecrated in Paris as a Church .

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1835 - The New Orleans Mint , Dahlonega Mint , and Charlotte Mint are all designed by William Strickland and begin producing coins in three years.

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1832 - William Le Baron Jenney is born.

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1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge over the Menai Strait in Wales , designed by Thomas Telford is completed.

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1809 - Birth of city planner Baron Haussmann .

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1806 - Arc De Triomphe , Paris from Jean Chalgrin commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte .

1805 - The Ellesmere Canal , designed by Thomas Telford , is completed.

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1800 - The White House in Washington D.C. is completed by team of client George Washington , planner Pierre L'Enfant , and architect James Hoban .

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1796 - Somerset House in London , designed by William Chambers is completed.

1795 - Birth of architect Charles Barry .

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1793 - Old East , the oldest public University building in the USA, is erected on the campus of the University Of North Carolina , in Chapel Hill, North Carolina .

1792 - Sir John Soane begins work on his house in London , now the Soane Museum .

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1786 - Schloss Bellevue in Berlin , designed by Philipp Daniel Boumann , is completed.

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1708 - St. Paul's Cathedral in London , designed by Christopher Wren , is completed.

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1704 - St Magnus-the-Martyr in London is completed.

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1702 - The Thomaskirche in Liepzig , Germany is completed.

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17TH CENTURY

1690s - The city of Noto, Italy , on Sicily , is devastated by an earthquake, and a rebuilding program begins in the Baroque style.

1680s - Church of Les Invalides , Paris is built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart .

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1660s - Louis XIV , with the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart , begins to enlarge the Palace Of Versailles .

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1640s - Borromini builds the church St. Ivo Della Sapienza .

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1620s - Bernini constructs the church of Santa Susanna in Rome.

1610s - Carlo Maderno begins an eight-year construction of the Façade of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome .

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1590s - Bernini and Borromini are born.

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1530s - Work begins on the Piazza Del Campidoglio ( Capitoline Hill ), designed by Michelangelo .

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1240s - The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral in Cologne is laid.

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1190s - Construction begun on the present form of Chartres Cathedral after a fire.

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