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| 1930 |
| | | The Chrysler Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, but holds the record for only one year | |
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| 1931 |
| | | President Hoover switches on the lights to inaugurate the world's new tallest skyscraper, the Empire State Building in New York | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Frank Lloyd Wright designs Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, for Edgar Kaufmann | |
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| c. 1936 |
| | | Frank Lloyd Wright experiments with prefabrication for low-cost housing in a style he calls Usonian (meaning 'in the US style') | |
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| 1937 |
| | | US architect Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin West in Arizona as his winter home and studio | |
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| 1938 |
| | | US architectural critic Lewis Mumford publishes The Culture of Cities | |
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| 1949 |
| | | US architect Philip Johnson builds the Glass House in Connecticut in the International Style | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US architect Louis Kahn makes his reputation with the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Oscar Niemeyer is appointed chief architect for his country's new capital, Brasilia | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson complete a skyscraper for Seagram in New York | |
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