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Events relating to architecture
The new Nazi government closes down Germany's distinguished school of modern art and architecture, the Bauhaus
Nazi architect Albert Speer designs a spectacular new setting for the party's annual Nuremberg rally
Berthold Lubetkin and Ove Arup provide a modernist pool for the penguins in London Zoo
Openly hostile to the Nazis, the architect Walter Gropius moves to England and three years later makes the USA his home
The Viipury Library in Finland makes the reputation of a young Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, for Edgar Kaufmann
Frank Lloyd Wright experiments with prefabrication for low-cost housing in a style he calls Usonian (meaning 'in the US style')
German architect Werner March designs spectacular buildings for the Berlin Olympics
US architect Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin West in Arizona as his winter home and studio
US architectural critic Lewis Mumford publishes The Culture of Cities
Le Corbusier's use of béton brut (raw concrete) introduces Brutalism
Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier introduces the Modulor, an architectural unit based on the Golden Section
US architect Philip Johnson builds the Glass House in Connecticut in the International Style
Le Corbusier begins a 15-year project designing Chandigarh as a new joint capital for Punjab and Hariyana
British architects Arnold Powell and John Moya design the Skylon as a central feature for the Festival of Britain
British architect Basil Spence wins the competition to design a new cathedral for Coventry
British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner undertakes a massive task, a county-by-county description of The Buildings of England
Henri Matisse completes the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, with every detail designed by himself
Le Corbusier's completes his most massive modernist development, the Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles
US architect Louis Kahn makes his reputation with the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven
Le Corbusier completes the reinforced-concrete pilgrimage church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp
Danish architect Jørn Utzon wins the competition to design Sydney Opera House
Oscar Niemeyer is appointed chief architect for his country's new capital, Brasilia
Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson complete a skyscraper for Seagram in New York
Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum opens in New York after seventeen years of work on the project
