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Events relating to architecture
Robert Lorimer completes a chapel for the Knights of the Thistle in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh
Walter Gropius and other architects in Germany develop the International Modern style
A new and spectacular Grand Central Station opens in New York, designed by Charles Reed and Alan Stern
The Woolworth Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, a distinction it retains until 1930
A young American architect, Walter B. Griffin, wins the competition to design Canberra
Construction begins on the government buildings in New Delhi, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert 1Baker
A building by Walter Gropius for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Cologne brings him international attention
Antoni Gaudí completes the fanciful Park Güell, a residential project north of Barcelona based on the English concept of the garden city
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret develops Maison Domino, a system of low-cost housing with reinforced concrete columns and precast floors
The Villa Schwob is completed, the last house designed by Le Corbusier in La Chaux-de-Fonds and one of the first in the world to use reinforced concrete
Walter Gropius becomes director of the newly formed Bauhaus in Weimar
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret launches and edits a radical architectural journal, L'Esprit Nouveau
The Swiss architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret adopts the simpler Le Corbusier as a pseudonym in L'Esprit Nouveau
The Swiss architect Le Corbusier begins a 20-year partnership with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret
Le Corbusier publishes an influential collection of his articles under the title Towards a New Architecture
The Austrian architect Adolf Loos builds a house in Paris for the Romanian dadaist poet Tristan Tzara
Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí dies after being hit by a tram, with his masterpiece the Sagrada Familia unfinished
Mies van der Rohe designs a monument in Berlin for the Spartacus leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
Walter Gropius designs buildings in Dessau as a new home for the Bauhaus
Stuttgart's Weissenhofsiedlung, designed by Mies van der Rohe, le Corbusier, Gropius and others, sets a defining standard for International Modernism
Le Corbusier and other modernist architects set up the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
The Irish National War Memorial opens in Dublin, designed by Edwin Lutyens in a garden setting
The Chrysler Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, but holds the record for only one year
President Hoover switches on the lights to inaugurate the world's new tallest skyscraper, the Empire State Building in New York
Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin and others set up in London the modernist firm of Tecton
