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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       
1962
 
   
Finnish-born US architect Eero Saarinen completes his TWA terminal for New York's Kennedy airport      
1966
 
    
Construction work begins on the twin towers for the World Trade Center in New York, designed by US architect Minoru Yamasaki       
1967
 
     
The US pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal is a geodesic dome by the architect Buckminster Fuller        
1973
 
    
The Sears Tower opens in Chicago, displacing the Empire State as the tallest building in the world       
1983
 
    
Philip Johnson completes the A.T. & T. skyscraper in New York, an early example of Post-Modernism