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This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in
architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...
and related disciplines including
structural engineering Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and muscles' that create the form and shape of man-made structures. Structural engineers also must understand and cal ...
,
landscape architecture Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for constructio ...
, and
city planning Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, ...
. One significant architectural achievement is listed for each year. __FORCETOC__ Articles for each year (in bold text, below) are summarized here with a significant event as a reference point.


2020s

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2026 Predicted and scheduled events * January 1 ** In the United States, books, films, and other works published in 1930 will enter the public domain, assuming there are no changes made to copyright law. ** ''Soup to Nuts'', the first on-scree ...
– The
Sagrada Família The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, shortened as the Sagrada Família, is an unfinished church in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Designed by ...
is expected to be finished. *
2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...
Central Park Tower Central Park Tower is a residential supertall skyscraper at 225 West 57th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, along Billionaires' Row. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the building rises with 9 ...
in
New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
, the tallest residential building in the world, is completed. *
2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
Torres Obispado Torres Obispado, Spanish for Bishopric Towers or Diocese Towers, is a skyscraper complex in Monterrey, Mexico, which consists of a 305.3 m mixed-use supertall skyscraper called T.Op Torre 1 and a 156 m residential skyscraper called T ...
in
Monterrey Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is anchor ...
,
Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
the tallest skyscraper in
Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
, completed.


2010s

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2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
Notre-Dame fire On 15 April 2019, just before 18:20 CEST, a fire broke out beneath the roof of the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. By the time the structure fire was extinguished, the building's spire had collapsed, most of its roof had been destroyed, and i ...
*
2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...
Apple An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, wh ...
's new headquarters
Apple Park Apple Park is the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc., located in Cupertino, California, United States. It was opened to employees in April 2017, while construction was still underway, and superseded the original headquarters at Apple Campus, ...
, designed by
Norman Foster Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norm ...
, opened in
Cupertino, California Cupertino ( ) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 57,8 ...
. *
2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
MahaNakhon King Power Mahanakhon ( th, คิง เพาเวอร์ มหานคร), formerly known as MahaNakhon (มหานคร), is a mixed-use skyscraper in the Silom/Sathon central business district of Bangkok, Thailand. It was opened ...
opens in
Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estima ...
,
Zaha Hadid Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid ( ar, زها حديد ''Zahā Ḥadīd''; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centu ...
dies. *
2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...
Shanghai Tower Shanghai Tower () is a 128-story, megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai.
in
Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
, the tallest building in China and the second-tallest building in the world, gets completed,
Charles Correa Charles Mark Correa (1 September 1930 – 16 June 2015) was an Indian architect and urban planner. Credited with the creation of modern architecture in post-Independent India, he was celebrated for his sensitivity to the needs of the urban poo ...
dies. *
2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
One World Trade Center One World Trade Center (also known as One World Trade, One WTC, and formerly Freedom Tower) is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Mer ...
opens in
New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
. *
2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...
Gran Torre Santiago The Costanera Center Torre 2, better known as Gran Torre Santiago (Great Santiago Tower), and previously known as Torre Gran Costanera, is a 62-story skyscraper in Santiago, Chile, the second tallest in Latin America (behind Mexico's T.Op Torre ...
is completed in
Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
. *
2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...
– The
Tokyo Skytree is a broadcasting and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...
, The
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is a sporting complex and public park in Stratford, Hackney Wick, Leyton and Bow, in east London. It was purpose-built for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, situated adjacent to the Stratford City developm ...
is open in
London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
for the
2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
,
Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was ...
dies. *
2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...
Al Hamra Tower The Al Hamra Firduos Tower is a skyscraper in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It is the tallest building in Kuwait. Construction of the skyscraper started in 2005. It was completed in 2011. Designed by architectural firms Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Ram ...
, the tallest skyscraper in
Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...
, is completed. *
2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...
Burj Khalifa The Burj Khalifa (; ar, برج خليفة, , Khalifa Tower), known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration in 2010, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is known for being the world’s tallest building. With a total height ...
became the tallest man-made structure in the world, at .


2000s

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2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...
CityCenter Aria Campus, commonly known by its former name CityCenter, is a mixed-use, urban complex on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is located on and contains a total of . The complex includes Aria Resort and Casino, the Vdara condo-hotel, t ...
opens on the
Las Vegas Strip The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about long, and is immediately south of ...
in
Paradise, Nevada Paradise is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Nevada, United States, adjacent to the city of Las Vegas. It was formed on December 8, 1950. Its population was 191,238 at the 2020 census, making it the fif ...
. This project is the largest privately funded construction project in the history of the United States. *
2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
– "
Water Cube The National Aquatics Centre (), and colloquially known as the Water Cube () and the Ice Cube (), is an aquatics center at the Olympic Green in Beijing, China. The facility was originally constructed to host the aquatics competitions at the ...
", " Bird's Nest", South railway station, and other buildings in
Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
, completed for the
2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
. *
2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
– Tarald Lundevall completes the
Oslo Opera House The Oslo Opera House ( no, Operahuset) is the home of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and the national opera theatre in Norway. The building is situated in the Bjørvika neighbourhood of central Oslo, at the head of the Oslofjord. It is ...
in Oslo, Norway. *
2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
– Construction begins on the
Freedom Tower One World Trade Center (also known as One World Trade, One WTC, and formerly Freedom Tower) is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merr ...
, on the site of the former
World Trade Center World Trade Centers are sites recognized by the World Trade Centers Association. World Trade Center may refer to: Buildings * List of World Trade Centers * World Trade Center (2001–present), a building complex that includes five skyscrapers, a ...
. *
2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
Casa da Música The Casa da Música is a concert hall in Porto, Portugal. It was designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and opened in 2005. Designed to mark the festive year of 2001 in which the city of Porto was designated European Capital of Culture, it was the ...
opens in
Porto, Portugal Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...
, designed by the Dutch architect
Rem Koolhaas Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is often cited as a re ...
with
Office for Metropolitan Architecture The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is an international architectural firm with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Doha, and Australia. The firm is currently led by eight partners - Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Ellen van ...
. *
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
30 St Mary Axe 30 St Mary Axe (previously known as the Swiss Re Building and informally known as the Gherkin) is a commercial skyscraper in London's primary financial district, the City of London. It was completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004. W ...
(also known as "''the
Gherkin A pickled cucumber (commonly known as a pickle in the United States and Canada and a gherkin in Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand) is a usually small or miniature cucumber that has been pickled in a brine, vinegar, or ...
''" and the Swiss Re Building), designed by
Norman Foster Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norm ...
, completed in the
City of London The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London fr ...
. *
2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
Taipei 101 Taipei 101 (; stylized as TAIPEI 101), formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a supertall skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan. This building was officially classified as the world's tallest from its opening in 2004 until the 2009 ...
, designed by C.Y. Lee & Partners the world's tallest building from 2004 to 2010 is
topped out In building construction, topping out (sometimes referred to as topping off) is a builders' rite traditionally held when the last beam (or its equivalent) is placed atop a structure during its construction. Nowadays, the ceremony is often parlaye ...
. *
2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...
Simmons Hall dormitory, designed by architect
Steven Holl Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947) is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist. Among his most recognized works are the 2019 REACH expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the 2019 Hunters Point Library in Q ...
, completed at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
. *
2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
Jewish Museum Berlin The Jewish Museum Berlin (''Jüdisches Museum Berlin'') was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe. On of floor space, the museum presents the history of Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day, with new focuses ...
designed by
Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. He is known for the design a ...
opens to the public. *
2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
– The
Emirates Towers The Emirates Towers ( ar, أبراج الإمارات) is a building complex in Dubai that contains the Emirates Office Tower and Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel, which are connected by a two-story retail complex known as "The Boulevard". The bu ...
are both completed in
Dubai Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...
, The
London Eye The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United ...
is open in
London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
.


1990s

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
Jewish Museum Berlin The Jewish Museum Berlin (''Jüdisches Museum Berlin'') was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe. On of floor space, the museum presents the history of Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day, with new focuses ...
, designed by
Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. He is known for the design a ...
is completed. *
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
Petronas Twin Towers The Petronas Towers, also known as the Petronas Twin Towers or KLCC Twin Towers, (Malay: ''Menara Berkembar Petronas'') are 88-storey supertall skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, standing at . From 1998 to 2003, they were officially design ...
,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia , anthem = '' Maju dan Sejahtera'' , image_map = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = Malaysia#Southeast Asia#Asia , pushpin_map_caption = , coordinates = , su ...
, designed by
César Pelli César Pelli (October 12, 1926 – July 19, 2019) was an Argentine-American architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. Two of his most notable buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur a ...
completed (world tallest building 1998–2004).
Kiasma ) , established = (Museum of Contemporary Art) (opening of Kiasma building) , dissolved = , location = Helsinki, Finland , type = Art museum , accreditation = , key_holdings = , co ...
Museum of Contemporary Art by
Steven Holl Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947) is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist. Among his most recognized works are the 2019 REACH expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the 2019 Hunters Point Library in Q ...
opens to public. *
1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spai ...
designed by
Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are considered ...
.
Sky Tower (Auckland) The Sky Tower is a telecommunications and observation tower in Auckland, New Zealand. Located at the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets within the city's CBD, it is tall, as measured from ground level to the top of the mast,1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...
Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was ...
completes the
Niterói Contemporary Art Museum The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (''Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói'' — MAC) is situated in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is one of the city’s main landmarks. It was completed in 1996 ...
in Brazil. *
1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...
Aronoff Center for Design and Art,
University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,00 ...
completed by
Peter Eisenman Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932) is an American architect. Considered one of the New York Five, Eisenman is known for his writing and speaking about architecture as well as his designs, which have been called high modernist or deconstructiv ...
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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...
Steven Holl Architects begin construction of St. Ignatius Chapel at
Seattle University Seattle University (SeattleU) is a private Jesuit university in Seattle, Washington. Seattle University is the largest independent university in the Northwestern United States, with over 7,500 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate prog ...
. *
1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
– Building of the
Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...
Signal Box by
Herzog and de Meuron Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd.,
" Herzog & de Meuron. Retrieved on 11 October 2012. "Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd. R ...
*
1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...
– The
Umeda Sky Building The is the nineteenth-tallest building in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, and one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. It consists of two 40-story towers that connect at their two uppermost stories, with bridges and an escalator crossing t ...
in
Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...
City, Japan is completed. *
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
– The
Bank of America Corporate Center The Bank of America Corporate Center is an 871 ft (265 m) skyscraper in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina. Designed by Argentine architect César Pelli and HKS Architects, and best known as the headquarters of the namesake Bank of Ameri ...
in
Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ...
is completed. *
1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...
Stansted Airport London Stansted Airport is a tertiary international airport serving London, England, United Kingdom. It is located near Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England, northeast of Central London. London Stansted serves over 160 destinations acros ...
terminal building in
Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
, England, designed by
Norman Foster Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norm ...
, is completed. *
1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
Frederick Weisman Museum of Art The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is an art museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in 1934 as University Gallery, the museum was originally housed in an upper floor of the university's Northrop Auditorium. In 1 ...
,
University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...
completed by
Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are considered ...
.


1980s

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1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
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( ; ; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was ...
's pyramid addition to the
Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...
is opened. *
1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...
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Exhibition called Deconstructivist architecture opens. *
1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...
– The Riga Radio & TV Tower in
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, Latvia is completed. *
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...
– The
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in London, designed by
Richard Rogers Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021) was a British architect noted for his modernist and Functionalism (architecture), functionalist designs in high-tech architecture. He was a senior partner a ...
, is completed. *
1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
– The HSBC Headquarters Building in
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, China by
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, is completed. *
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
Philip Johnson Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect best known for his works of modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the pos ...
's AT&T Building opens in New York City *
1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
Xanadu House The Xanadu Houses were a series of experimental homes built to showcase examples of computers and automation in the home in the United States. The architectural project began in 1979, and during the early 1980s three houses were built in diffe ...
in
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opened. *
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
– Design competition is held for the
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in Paris. *
1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
Richard Serra Richard Serra (born November 2, 1938) is an American artist known for his large-scale sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings. Serra's sculptures are notable for their material quality and exploration o ...
installs ''
Tilted Arc ''Tilted Arc'' was a controversial public art installation by Richard Serra, displayed in Foley Federal Plaza in Manhattan from 1981 to 1989. It consisted of a 120-foot-long, 12-foot-high solid, unfinished plate of rust-covered COR-TEN steel. ...
'' in the Federal Plaza in New York City. The sculpture is removed in 1989. *
1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...
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constructed by
Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are considered ...
.


1970s

*
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
Charles Moore designs the Piazza d'Italia in
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. *
1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
United Nations City in
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,
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is completed. *
1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...
– The
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in
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, designed by
Renzo Piano Renzo Piano (; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (20 ...
,
Richard Rogers Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021) was a British architect noted for his modernist and Functionalism (architecture), functionalist designs in high-tech architecture. He was a senior partner a ...
and
Gianfranco Franchini Gianfranco Franchini (December 17, 1938 – April 21, 2009) was an Italian architect. Biography Born in Genoa and educated at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Franchini is best known for his collaboration with Renzo Piano and Richard Ro ...
, is opened. *
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
– The
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, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, opens in the
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. *
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
– The
CN Tower The CN Tower (french: Tour CN) is a concrete communications and observation tower in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976. Its name "CN" referred to Canadian National, the railway c ...
in
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opens as the tallest freestanding structure on land. *
1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
– Completion of the Seoul Tower in
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,
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. *
1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...
– National Assembly Building in
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,
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is completed. *
1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
– The
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towers, designed by
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, are opened in New York. *
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
– The
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in
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,
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, designed by
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, is completed. *
1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...
Rothko Chapel The Rothko Chapel is a wiktionary:nondenominational, non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas, founded by John de Ménil, John and Dominique de Menil. The interior serves not only as a chapel, but also as a major work of modern art: on its wal ...
in
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, designed by
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and
Philip Johnson Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect best known for his works of modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the pos ...
is completed. *
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
– Construction begins on the Sears Tower in Chicago, designed by Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan (of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill).


1960s

*1969 in architecture, 1969 – Fernsehturm Berlin opens. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius die. *1968 in architecture, 1968 – Mies van der Rohe's New National Gallery in Berlin finished. *1967 in architecture, 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 in architecture, 1966 – The Gateway Arch by Eero Saarinen is finished in St. Louis, Missouri. *1965 in architecture, 1965 – NASA's Cape Canaveral Vehicle Assembly Building, VAB, the Niagara Falls, Niagara Skylon Tower, Philadelphia's LOVE Park, the Tel Aviv Shalom Meir tower and the Salk Institute all open. *1964 in architecture, 1964 – The Unisphere heads 1964 New York World's Fair, New York World's Fair. *1963 in architecture, 1963 – The Palace of Assembly at Chandigarh, India, is finished. *1962 in architecture, 1962 – Orinda, California, Orinda Orinda House & by Charles Moore (architect), Charles W. Moore is completed. *1962 in architecture, 1962 – Seattle Space needle & TWA Terminal by Eero Saarinen, Saarinen at John F. Kennedy International Airport, JFK are opened. *1961 in architecture, 1961 – Louis Kahn finishes the Richards Medical Research Laboratories, Richards Medical Building at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. *1960 in architecture, 1960 – Lucio Costa &
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plan buildings of Brasilia, new capital of Brazil. The Television Centre, London, Television Centre for the BBC is opened in
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.


1950s

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


1940s

*1949 in architecture, 1949 – Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut designed by
Philip Johnson Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect best known for his works of modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the pos ...
. *1948 in architecture, 1948 – Pietro Belluschi completes the Equitable Building (Portland), Equitable Building in Portland, Oregon. *1947 in architecture, 1947 – Alvar Aalto builds the List of MIT undergraduate dormitories#Baker House, Baker House dormitories at the
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. *1946 in architecture, 1946 – Le Corbusier draws up plans for La Rochelle-La Pallice, while his efforts to redesign Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (both cities in France) are foiled. *1945 in architecture, 1945 – John Entenza launches the Case Study Houses Program through his post as editor of ''Arts & Architecture'' magazine. *1944 in architecture, 1944 – Frank Lloyd Wright builds the research tower for his Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin. *1943 in architecture, 1943 –
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completes his Pampulha (Belo Horizonte), Pampulha project in Brazil. *1942 in architecture, 1942 – Vichy France, Vichy rejects Le Corbusier's Obus E plan for Algiers. *1941 in architecture, 1941 – Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia, completed. *1940 in architecture, 1940 – Peter Behrens dies.


1930s

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


1920s

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


1910s

*1919 in architecture, 1919 – Bauhaus design school founded in Weimar, Germany *1918 in architecture, 1918 – Birth of Jørn Utzon, designer of the Sydney Opera House. *1917 in architecture, 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 in architecture, 1916 – De Stijl movement founded in the Netherlands. *1915 in architecture, 1915 – Le Corbusier completes studies for his Dom-ino Houses. *1914 in architecture, 1914 – Walter Gropius designs his Fagus Factory. *1913 in architecture, 1913 – Cass Gilbert completes the Woolworth Building in New York. *1912 in architecture, 1912 – Frank Lloyd Wright begins work on the Avery Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois. *1911 in architecture, 1911 – Josef Hoffmann completes the Palais Stoclet in Brussels. *1910 in architecture, 1910 – Gaudí finishes the Casa Milà in Barcelona.


1900s

*1909 in architecture, 1909 – Frank Lloyd Wright completes the Robie House near Chicago. *1908 in architecture, 1908 – Adolf Loos publishes his essay "Ornament and Crime". *1907 in architecture, 1907 – Gaudí completes the Casa Batlló in Barcelona. *1906 in architecture, 1906 – Lucien Weissenburger completes his own house, a striking example of the Art Nouveau style in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. *1905 in architecture, 1905 – Wright designs Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois. *1904 in architecture, 1904 – Otto Wagner completes his Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna, Post Office Savings Bank Building in Vienna. *1903 in architecture, 1903 – Josef Hoffmann finishes the Moser House in
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. *1902 in architecture, 1902 – Otto Wagner's Wiener Stadtbahn, Viennese Stadtbahn railway system is completed. *1901 in architecture, 1901 – John McArthur, Jr., completes the Second Empire architecture, Second Empire-style Philadelphia City Hall, the world's tallest masonry building. *1900 in architecture, 1900 – The Gare d'Orsay, later the famous Musée d'Orsay, is built in Paris by Victor Laloux.


1890s

*1899 in architecture, 1899 – Hector Guimard is commissioned to design the edicules for the Paris Métropolitain, which have become a hallmark of Art Nouveau design. *1898 in architecture, 1898 – Victor Horta designs his own house, later the Horta Museum. *1897 in architecture, 1897 – Hendrik Berlage designs his Amsterdam Stock Exchange. *1896 in architecture, 1896 – Eugène Vallin completes his own house and studio in Nancy, France, Nancy (France), which is the first of many Art Nouveau structures built there by the members of the ''École de Nancy''. *1895 in architecture, 1895 – The Biltmore Estate, the largest house in the US, is completed for the Vanderbilt family in Asheville, North Carolina. *1894 in architecture, 1894 – Louis Sullivan builds the Prudential (Guaranty) Building (Buffalo, New York), Guaranty Building in Buffalo, NY, US. *1893 in architecture, 1893 – Victor Horta builds what is widely considered the first full-fledged Art Nouveau structure, the Hôtel Tassel, in Brussels. *1892 in architecture, 1892 – Birth of Modernist architect Richard Neutra. *1891 in architecture, 1891 – Louis Sullivan completes his Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri, Saint Louis. *1890 in architecture, 1890 – Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler build the Auditorium Building in Chicago.


1880s

*1889 in architecture, 1889 – The 1889 Paris exhibition showcases some of the new technologies of iron, steel, and glass, including the Eiffel Tower. *1888 in architecture, 1888 – The Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888) displays many buildings by Lluís Domènech i Montaner and other Catalan architects. *1887 in architecture, 1887 – H. H. Richardson's Marshall Field Store in Chicago is completed. *1886 in architecture, 1886 – Birth of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. *1885 in architecture, 1885 – William Le Baron Jenney builds the first metal-frame skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building, in Chicago. *1884 in architecture, 1884 – Gaudí is given the commission for the
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church in Barcelona, which he will work on until 1926. *1883 in architecture, 1883 – Antoni Gaudí completes his Casa Vicens in Barcelona. *1881 in architecture, 1881 – The Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum in London opens. *1880 in architecture, 1880 – Cologne Cathedral is finally completed after 632 years.


1870s

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


1860s

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


1850s

*1859 in architecture, 1859 – Birth of Louis Majorelle and Cass Gilbert. *1858 in architecture, 1858 – The competition to design Central Park in New York is won by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. *1857 in architecture, 1857 – Founding of the American Institute of Architects. *1856 in architecture, 1856 – Louis Sullivan and Eugène Vallin are born. *1855 in architecture, 1855 – The Palais d'Industrie is built for the World's Fair in Paris. *1854 in architecture, 1854 – *1853 in architecture, 1853 – Baron Haussmann becomes prefect of the Seine ' and begins his vast urban Haussmann's renovation of Paris, renovations of Paris. *1852 in architecture, 1852 – Birth of Antoni Gaudí. *1851 in architecture, 1851 – ''The Crystal Palace'' designed by Joseph Paxton. *1850 in architecture, 1850 – Lluis Domènech í Montaner and John W. Root are born.


1840s

*1849 in architecture, 1849 – John Ruskin's ''The Seven Lamps of Architecture'' is published. *1848 in architecture, 1848 – Construction begins on the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., though it will not be completed until 1885. *1847 in architecture, 1847 – 24 August, birth of Charles Follen McKim (died 1909). *1846 in architecture, 1846 – 4 September, birth of Daniel Burnham of the firm Burnham and Root. *1845 in architecture, 1845 – Trafalgar Square in London, designed by Charles Barry and John Nash (architect), John Nash, is completed. *1844 in architecture, 1844 – Uspensky Cathedral (Ukraine), Uspensky Cathedral in Kharkiv, Ukraine is completed. *1843 in architecture, 1843 – Construction begins on Henri Labrouste's Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris. *1842 in architecture, 1842 – The Église de la Madeleine is finally consecrated in Paris as a Church (building), church. *1841 in architecture, 1841 – Birth of Otto Wagner. *1840 in architecture, 1840 – Construction begins on the Houses of Parliament in London, designed by Sir Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.


1830s

*1839 in architecture, 1839 – Birth of Frank Furness in Philadelphia. *1838 in architecture, 1838 – Rideau Hall is built by Scottish architect Thomas McKay. *1837 in architecture, 1837 – The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is founded. *1836 in architecture, 1836 – A.W.N. Pugin publishes his ''Contrasts'', a treatise on the morality of Catholic, Gothic architecture. *1835 in architecture, 1835 – The New Orleans Mint, Dahlonega Mint, and Charlotte Mint are all designed by William Strickland (architect), William Strickland and begin producing. coins in three years. *1834 in architecture, 1834 – Alfred B. Mullet, designer of both the San Francisco Mint, San Francisco and the Carson City Mints in the US, is born in Britain. *1833 in architecture, 1833 – William Strickland completes the first Philadelphia Mint building. *1832 in architecture, 1832 – Birth of William Le Baron Jenney. *1830 in architecture, 1830 – The Altes Museum in Berlin, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, is completed after seven years of construction.


1820s

*1829 in architecture, 1829 – The panopticon-design Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, designed by John Havilland, opens. *1828 in architecture, 1828 – Completion of the Marble Arch in London, designed by John Nash. *1827 in architecture, 1827 – Birth of British Gothic Revial architect William Burges. *1826 in architecture, 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge over the Menai Strait, in Wales, designed by Thomas Telford, is completed. *1825 in architecture, 1825 – The front and rear porticoes of the White House are added to the building. *1824 in architecture, 1824 – The Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, Ireland is completed. *1823 in architecture, 1823 – Work begins on the British Museum in London, designed by (Sir) Robert Smirke (architect), Robert Smirke. *1822 in architecture, 1822 – Birth of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. *1821 in architecture, 1821 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel completeds his Konzerthaus Berlin, Schauspielhaus in Berlin and Benjamin Latrobe's Baltimore Basilica is completed. *1820 in architecture, 1820 – Death of Benjamin Latrobe.


1810s

*1819 in architecture, 1819 – Birth of English architect Horace Jones (architect), Horace Jones. *1818 in architecture, 1818 – Birth of American architect James Renwick, Jr. *1817 in architecture, 1817 – Dulwich Picture Gallery in London is designed by Sir John Soane as the first purpose-built art gallery. *1816 in architecture, 1816 – Vauxhall Bridge, Regent's Bridge, crossing the River Thames in central London, designed by James Walker (engineer), James Walker, is opened. *1815 in architecture, 1815 – Brighton Pavilion is redesigned by John Nash (architect), John Nash for the future King George IV. *1814 in architecture, 1814 – British troops burn the White House in Washington, D.C., gutting it completely. *1813 in architecture, 1813 – Death of Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. *1812 in architecture, 1812 – The Egyptian Hall in London, designed by P. F. Robinson, is completed. *1811 in architecture, 1811 – The United States Capitol, designed by Benjamin Latrobe, is completed. Birth of George Gilbert Scott. *1810 in architecture, 1810 – Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange, designed by Jean-François Thomas de Thomon, is completed.


1800s

*1809 in architecture, 1809 – Birth of city planner Baron Haussmann. *1808 in architecture, 1808 – Construction begins on the Paris Bourse, designed by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. *1807 in architecture, 1807 – The :File:Templo de la Virgen del Carmen, Celaya, Guanajuato, México .jpg, Templo de la Virgen del Carmen in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico is completed. *1806 in architecture, 1806 – Arc de Triomphe, Paris from Jean Chalgrin commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte. *1805 in architecture, 1805 – The Ellesmere Canal, designed by Thomas Telford, is completed. *1804 in architecture, 1804 – Completion of the Government House, The Bahamas, Government House in the Bahamas. *1803 in architecture, 1803 – The Raj Bhavan, Kolkata, Raj Bhavan in Kolkata, West Bengal, India is finished. *1802 in architecture, 1802 – The Temple of Saint Philip Neri in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico is completed. *1801 in architecture, 1801 – Birth of Henri Labrouste. *1800 in architecture, 1800 – The White House in Washington, D.C. is completed by team of client George Washington, planner Pierre L'Enfant, and architect James Hoban.


1790s

*1799 in architecture, 1799 – Death of French neoclassicist Étienne-Louis Boullée. *1798 in architecture, 1798 – Karlsruhe Synagogue, usually regarded as the first building of the Egyptian Revival architecture, built by Friedrich Weinbrenner in Karlsruhe. *1797 in architecture, 1797 – Ditherington Flax Mill, in Shrewsbury, England, the world's oldest surviving iron-framed building, is completed. *1796 in architecture, 1796 – Somerset House in
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, designed by William Chambers (architect), William Chambers, is completed. *1795 in architecture, 1795 – Birth of English architect Charles Barry. *1794 in architecture, 1794 – Hwaseong Fortress in Suwon, Korea, begins. *1793 in architecture, 1793 – Old East, the oldest public uniir John Soane's Museum. *1791 in architecture, 1791 – Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is completed *1790 in architecture, 1790 –


1780s

*1789 in architecture, 1789 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot's Panthéon, Paris, Panthéon in Paris is completed by his student Jean-Baptiste Rondelet. *1788 in architecture, 1788 – *1787 in architecture, 1787 – *1786 in architecture, 1786 – Schloss Bellevue in Berlin, designed by Philipp Daniel Boumann, is completed. *1785 in architecture, 1785 – *1784 in architecture, 1784 – *1783 in architecture, 1783 – *1782 in architecture, 1782 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart is named architect and controller-general of the École Militaire in Paris. *1781 in architecture, 1781 – *1780 in architecture, 1780 – 29 August – Death of Jacques-Germain Soufflot (b. 1713).


1770s

*1779 in architecture, 1779 – Fridericianum in Kassel (Hesse), designed by Simon Louis du Ry, completed. *1778 in architecture, 1778 – La Scala opera house in Milan (Lombardy), designed by Giuseppe Piermarini, is opened *1777 in architecture, 1777 – *1776 in architecture, 1776 – *1775 in architecture, 1775 – *1774 in architecture, 1774 – *1773 in architecture, 1773 – *1772 in architecture, 1772 – *1771 in architecture, 1771 – *1770 in architecture, 1770 –


1760s

*1769 in architecture, 1769 – St Clement's Church, Moscow is completed *1768 in architecture, 1768 – Petit Trianon at Palace of Versailles, Versailles is completed. *1767 in architecture, 1767 – Arg of Karim Khan *1766 in architecture, 1766 – Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill House in London is completed. *1765 in architecture, 1765 – *1764 in architecture, 1764 – Construction begins on church of La Madeleine, Paris. *1763 in architecture, 1763 – *1762 in architecture, 1762 – *1761 in architecture, 1761 – *1760 in architecture, 1760 –


1750s

*1759 in architecture, 1759 – Royal Palace of Riofrío in Spain, designed by Virgilio Rabaglio completed. *1758 in architecture, 1758 – The royal water garden of Taman Sari (Yogyakarta) on Java, designed by Tumenggung Mangundipura, is begun. *1757 in architecture, 1757 – Vorontsov Palace (Saint Petersburg), designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, is completed. *1756 in architecture, 1756 – *1755 in architecture, 1755 – Nuruosmaniye Mosque in Istanbul, designed by Mustafa Ağa and Simeon Kalfa, is completed *1754 in architecture, 1754 – Tomb of Safdar Jang in New Delhi, Delhi is completed. *1753 in architecture, 1753 – The Georgian-Style Pennsylvania State House, (Independence Hall) is completed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. *1752 in architecture, 1752 – Valletta Waterfront on Malta is built *1751 in architecture, 1751 – *1750 in architecture, 1750 – Rang Ghar in eastern India.


1740s

*1749 in architecture, 1749 – The Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs, is opened as a library. *1748 in architecture, 1748 – *1747 in architecture, 1747 – *1746 in architecture, 1746 – *1745 in architecture, 1745 – *1744 in architecture, 1744 – *1743 in architecture, 1743 – Dresden Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany, completed. *1742 in architecture, 1742 – *1741 in architecture, 1741 – *1740 in architecture, 1740 –


1730s

*1739 in architecture, 1739 – Birth of Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. *1738 in architecture, 1738 – *1737 in architecture, 1737 – *1736 in architecture, 1736 – *1735 in architecture, 1735 – Buckingham Palace built *1734 in architecture, 1734 – *1733 in architecture, 1733 – *1732 in architecture, 1732 – *1731 in architecture, 1731 – Basilica of Superga in the vicinity of Turin built, and designed by Filippo Juvarra *1730 in architecture, 1730 –


1720s

*1729 in architecture, 1729 – Christ Church, Spitalfields in London is completed. *1728 in architecture, 1728 – *1727 in architecture, 1727 – *1726 in architecture, 1726 – The remaining ruins of Liverpool Castle are demolished. *1725 in architecture, 1725 – *1724 in architecture, 1724 – The construction of Blenheim Palace is completed. *1723 in architecture, 1723 – Mavisbank House in Loanhead, Scotland is designed. Death of Christopher Wren. *1722 in architecture, 1722 – *1721 in architecture, 1721 – *1720 in architecture, 1720 –


1710s

*1719 in architecture, 1719 – *1718 in architecture, 1718 – *1717 in architecture, 1717 – *1716 in architecture, 1716 – *1715 in architecture, 1715 – *1714 in architecture, 1714 – *1713 in architecture, 1713 – Vizianagaram Fort in South India is built. *1712 in architecture, 1712 – *1711 in architecture, 1711 – *1710 in architecture, 1710 –


1700s

*1709 in architecture, 1709 – *1708 in architecture, 1708 – St. Paul's Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed. *1707 in architecture, 1707 – *1706 in architecture, 1706 – *1705 in architecture, 1705 – November: In Williamsburg, Virginia, Williamsburg, capital of the Virginia colony in America, construction of the Capitol building is completed. *1704 in architecture, 1704 – St Magnus-the-Martyr in London is completed. *1703 in architecture, 1703 – *1702 in architecture, 1702 – The Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany is completed. *1701 in architecture, 1701 – *1700 in architecture, 1700 –


17th century

*1694 in architecture, 1690s – Potala Palace is completed in Tibet. *1690s in architecture, 1690s – The city of Noto, Italy, Noto, Italy, on Sicily, is devastated by an earthquake (1693), and a rebuilding program begins in the Baroque style. *1680s in architecture, 1680s – Church of Les Invalides, Paris is built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart. *1670s in architecture, 1670s – The Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, designed by Christopher Wren is completed (1676). *1660s in architecture, 1660s – Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV, with the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart, begins to enlarge the Palace of Versailles (1661); foundation stone of Petersberg Citadel, Erfurt, Germany laid (1665). *1650s in architecture, 1650s – Completion of the church Sant'Agnese in Agone in Rome, designed by Borromini and Carlo Rainaldi. *1640s in architecture, 1640s – Borromini builds the church Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza in Rome. *1630s in architecture, 1630s – Emperor Shah Jahan construct Taj Mahal in Agra, India. *1630s in architecture, 1630s – Borromini builds the church San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome. *1620s in architecture, 1620s – St. Peter's Basilica is completed in Vatican City (1626). *1610s in architecture, 1610s – Mohammadreza Isfahani builds Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Iran. *1600s in architecture, 1600s – 33 pol bridge is constructed in Isfahan, Iran.


16th century

*1590s in architecture, 1590s – Bernini and Borromini are born. *1580s in architecture, 1580s – *1570s in architecture, 1570s – *1560s in architecture, 1560s – work begins on Palladio's Villa Capra "La Rotonda". *1550s in architecture, 1550s – *1540s in architecture, 1540s – *1530s in architecture, 1530s – Work begins on Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill). *1520s in architecture, 1520s – Santhome Church was built in Chennai. *1510s in architecture, 1510s – Construction begins on Chateau Chambord. *1500s in architecture, 1500s – Construction begins on St. Peter's Basilica. Birth of Andrea Palladio.


15th century

*1490s in architecture, 1490s – *1480s in architecture, 1480s – Vitruvius' treatise ''De architectura'' and Leon Battista Alberti's ''De re aedificatoria'' were published, having previously existed only in manuscript. *1470s in architecture, 1470s – *1460s in architecture, 1460s – *1450s in architecture, 1450s – Architecture of the Ottoman Empire after capturing Constantinople *1440s in architecture, 1440s – *1430s in architecture, 1430s – *1420s in architecture, 1420s – The Forbidden City of China is completed *1410s in architecture, 1410s – *1400s in architecture, 1400s – The Changdeokgung of Korea is completed.


14th century

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13th century

*1290s in architecture, 1290s – *1280s in architecture, 1280s – *1270s in architecture, 1270s – St. Augustine's Monastery (Erfurt), Germany begun 1277 *1260s in architecture, 1260s – Fakr Ad-Din Mosque is finished in the Sultanate of Mogadishu *1250s in architecture, 1250s – *1240s in architecture, 1240s – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral in Cologne is laid. *1230s in architecture, 1230s – *1220s in architecture, 1220s – *1210s in architecture, 1210s – *1200s in architecture, 1200s –


12th century

*1190s in architecture, 1190s – Construction of Qutb Minar started in India *1190s in architecture, 1190s – Construction begins on the present form of Chartres Cathedral after a fire. *1180s in architecture, 1180s – *1170s in architecture, 1170s – *1160s in architecture, 1160s – *1150s in architecture, 1150s – *1140s in architecture, 1140s – Abbot Sugar supervises the reconstruction of St. Denis in the Gothic style *1130s in architecture, 1130s – Work begins on the Basilica of Saint-Denis in France. *1120s in architecture, 1120s – *1110s in architecture, 1110s – *1100s in architecture, 1100s – Yingzao Fashi written by Li Jie (author), Li Jie published during mid Song dynasty, an important set of building standards.


11th century

*1090s in architecture, 1090s – Durham Cathedral founded; Old Synagogue (Erfurt), Germany, one of the oldest synagogue buildings in Europe (1094) *1080s in architecture, 1080s – *1070s in architecture, 1070s – St Albans Cathedral commenced; built from the ruins of Roman Verulamium. *1060s in architecture, 1060s – *1050s in architecture, 1050s – Greensted Church built, oldest surviving wooden church (extensively repaired) in the world, possibly the oldest wooden building in Europe. *1040s in architecture, 1040s – *1030s in architecture, 1030s – Gangaikonda Cholapuram built by the kingdom of Rajendra Chola I under Chola dynasty. *1020s in architecture, 1020s – *1010s in architecture, 1010s – *1000s in architecture, 1000s – Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur, Brihadisvara Temple built by the kingdom of Rajaraja I under Chola dynasty. Construction of stone buildings in Great Zimbabwe begins.


1st millennium AD

* 905 – Aachen Cathedral consecrated (major renovations in the 10th century in architecture, 10th century). *10th century in architecture, 900s – Akhtala Monastery built, intended as a fortress. *9th century in architecture, 800s – * 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches. * 848 – San Miguel de Lillo built in the Asturian architecture, Asturian pre-romanesque style of Architecture of Spain, Spain. *8th century in architecture, 700s – Seokguram of Korea is constructed. * 605 – Anji Bridge, China, the world's oldest known open-spandrel segmental stone arch bridge, is completed. *7th century in architecture, 600s – St. Hripsime Church, Echmiadzin, one of the world's oldest surviving churches, constructed. *6th century in architecture, 500s – Hagia Sophia built in its present form. Oldest known surviving roof truss in Saint Catherine's Monastery. *495–504 – Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna. * 470 – Basilica of St. Martin, Tours. * 432–40 – Santa Maria Maggiore and Santa Sabina in Rome. *5th century in architecture, 400s – Mahabalipuram, an ancient port city of south east India, constructed under Mahendravarman I & his son Narasimhavarman I of the Pallava Kingdom, Tamil Nadu, South India. *391 – Serapeum of Alexandria is destroyed in a conflict between Christians and pagans. * c.330 – Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome. * 325 – Old St. Peter's Basilica, Rome. * 320 – Construction of Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome, begun using standards that will be followed in future basilica designs. * 315 – Arch of Constantine in Rome dedicated to the Battle of Milvian Bridge. * 312 – Aula Palatina (Basilica of Constantine) at Trier, the brick audience hall, completed. * 307–312 – Basilica of Maxentius and Catacomb of the Via Latina in Rome begun. *4th century in architecture, 300s – Nalanda, an ancient center of higher learning, is built in Gupta Empire in India. * 296–306 – Baths of Diocletian in Rome. * 262 – Arch of Gallienus in Rome completed. * 231 – Dura-Europos church in Syria, a house built c.200 converted into a Christian Church. * 224 – Dura-Europos synagogue one of the oldest synagogues. * 211 – Arch of Drusus in Rome completed. * 203 – Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome completed. * 212–16 – Baths of Caracalla in Rome. *3rd century in architecture, 200s – *200 – Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan is constructed. * 193 – Column of Marcus Aurelius dedicated in Rome. * 134 – Ponte Sant'Angelo across the Tiber in Rome completed. * 118–28 – Pantheon, Rome is completed, an early full dome. * 113 – Trajan's Column in Rome dedicated. * 104–6 – Alcántara Bridge, a Ancient Rome, Roman multiple arched bridge over the Tagus River in Spain. * 82 – Arch of Titus in Rome an artifact from the 'Temple Period' and the beginning of the Jewish Diaspora. *2nd century in architecture, 100s – Pantheon, Rome is completed. * 70–80 – Colosseum in Rome built under Emperors Vespasian and Titus. * 60–69 – Domus Aurea in Rome begun. * 52 – Porta Maggiore (Porta Prenestina) in Rome built. A subterranean Neopythagoreanism, Neopythagorean basilica nearby also dates to this century. * 47–50 – Romans establish the city of Londinium in Britain. * 40 – Lighthouse at Boulogne built. * 3 – Gungnae City of Goguryeo completed.


1st millennium BC

*1st century BC in architecture, 1–99 BC – Vitruvius writes De architectura (c. 15 BC). Expansion of Herod the Great's temple begins (c. 37 BC). Pont du Gard (c. 50 BC), Provence, France. Pons Fabricius, oldest functional stone Roman bridge in Rome, Italy (62 BC). Maison Carrée Roman temple is constructed (c. 16 BC). Mausoleum of Augustus is completed (28 BC). *2nd century BC in architecture, 100s – Across the Tiber in Italy: Ponte Milvio is the second bridge at this location (115 BC); Pons Aemilius is the oldest stone Roman bridge in Rome (126 BC). *3rd century BC in architecture, 200s – Erechtheion in Athens completed (206 BC). Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt completed and is the tallest man-made structure in existence at the time (c. 246 BC). The city of Djenné-Djenno is first occupied (250 BC). Colossus of Rhodes is completed (280 BC). *4th century BC in architecture, 300s – University of ancient Taxila, one of the first institute of learning (according to some historian), built in the Indian Subcontinent. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is completed (350 BC). Alexander the Great founds the city of Alexandria and plans its layout (331 BC). The city of Antioch is founded (300 BC). *5th century BC in architecture, 400s – Completion of the final form of the Parthenon in Athens (432 BC). Construction of Pataliputra (modern day Patna) in the Magadha empire (Indian Subcontinent) begun (490 BC). *6th century BC in architecture, 500s – Construction of the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus begins. Work begun on Persepolis (515 BC). Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus completed in Rome (509 BC). *7th century BC in architecture, 600s – Port city of Naucratis is founded in Egypt (c. 625 BC). Massalia (modern day Marseille) is founded (c. 600 BC). *8th century BC in architecture, 700s – According to legend, the city of Rome is founded (753 BC). *9th century BC in architecture, 800s – *10th century BC in architecture, 900s – The earliest Greek temple built at Samos with some timber framing based on the Mycenaean Greece, Mycenaean megaron


2nd millennium BC

*11th century BC in architecture, 1000s BC – *12th century BC in architecture, 1100s – *13th century BC in architecture, 1200s – Chogha Zanbil built. End of Harappan architecture *14th century BC in architecture, 1300s – *15th century BC in architecture, 1400s – *16th century BC in architecture, 1500s – *17th century BC in architecture, 1600s – Final construction of Stonehenge in EnglandStonehenge#After the monument (1600 BC on) *18th century BC in architecture, 1700s – *19th century BC in architecture, 1800s – Last Egyptian pyramid built in Hawara *20th century BC in architecture, 1900s –


3rd millennium BC

*21st century BC in architecture, 2000s BC – Ziggurat of Ur construction takes place *22nd century BC in architecture, 2100s – *23rd century BC in architecture, 2200s – *24th century BC in architecture, 2300s – *25th century BC in architecture, 2400s – *26th century BC in architecture, 2500s – *27th century BC in architecture, 2600s – Mohenjo-daro ancient city in the Indian subcontinent built. Great Pyramid of Giza and Pyramid of Djoser built in Egypt. *28th century BC in architecture, 2700s – *29th century BC in architecture, 2800s – *30th century BC in architecture, 2900s – (2900 – 1600 BC) the Longshan culture in China. Examples in Shandong, Henan, and southern Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces.


Neolithic

*4th millennium BC in architecture, 4th millennium BC – Harappa ancient city built. *5th millennium BC – (5000–3000 BC) Yangshao culture in China. *6th millennium BC – (6000–2000 BC) Emergence of wooden frames in Chinese architecture including the use of mortise and tenon joinery to build wood beamed houses. *7th millennium BC – Çatalhöyük in Anatolia constructed without streets. *8th millennium BC – Lahuradewa architecture in Ganges plains of India. Early Mehrgarh settlement sites in Indian subcontinent. Earliest town sites with simple residential neighbourhoods in Jarmo, Jericho, and Ain Ghazal on the Levant. *10th millennium BC – Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, an ancient structure believed to be the first place of worship.


References


See also

*Table of years in architecture *Timeline of architectural styles *Outline of architecture *History of architecture {{Lists of years Culture-related timelines, Architecture Years in architecture, Architectural history, + Architecture lists Lists of years by topic, Architecture