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1935
 
    
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, for Edgar Kaufmann       
c. 1936
 
    
Frank Lloyd Wright experiments with prefabrication for low-cost housing in a style he calls Usonian (meaning 'in the US style')       
1937
 
    
US architect Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin West in Arizona as his winter home and studio       
1938
 
    
US architectural critic Lewis Mumford publishes The Culture of Cities       
1949
 
    
US architect Philip Johnson builds the Glass House in Connecticut in the International Style       
1953
 
    
US architect Louis Kahn makes his reputation with the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven       
1957
 
    
Oscar Niemeyer is appointed chief architect for his country's new capital, Brasilia       
1958
 
     
Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson complete a skyscraper for Seagram in New York        
1959
 
    
Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum opens in New York after seventeen years of work on the project       
1960
 
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The Brazilian government moves to Brasilia, into public buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer