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| 1527 |
| | | Francis I begins to transform Fontainebleau into a palace, employing artists who establish the mannerist school of Fontainebleau | |
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| 1664 |
| | | Louis XIV commissions a well-established team of designers to provide him with a spectacular palace and garden at Versailles | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Charles-Édouard Jeanneret launches and edits a radical architectural journal, L'Esprit Nouveau | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The Swiss architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret adopts the simpler Le Corbusier as a pseudonym in L'Esprit Nouveau | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The Swiss architect Le Corbusier begins a 20-year partnership with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Le Corbusier publishes an influential collection of his articles under the title Towards a New Architecture | |
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| 1926 |
| | | The Austrian architect Adolf Loos builds a house in Paris for the Romanian dadaist poet Tristan Tzara | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Le Corbusier and other modernist architects set up the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) | |
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| c. 1945 |
| | | Le Corbusier's use of béton brut (raw concrete) introduces Brutalism | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier introduces the Modulor, an architectural unit based on the Golden Section | |
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