Antoni Gaudí completes his radical rebuilding of the Casa Batlló in Barcelona

Frank Lloyd Wright builds a Unity Temple for the Unitarians in Oak Park, now a suburb of Chicago

20-year-old Le Corbusier builds his first house at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in his native Switzerland

Modernist architect Adolf Loos attacks architectural ornament in Ornament and Crime

The Liver Building, surmounted by two legendary Liver Birds, is completed in Liverpool

Antoni Gaudí completes an apartment block, the Casa Milá, in Barcelona

The Steiner House, designed by the Austrian architect Adolf Loos, is completed in Vienna

Pennsylvania Station opens in New York, designed by McKim, Mead & White

Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin, as his own home and studio, near Bear Run in Wisconsin

Walter Gropius builds the Fagus Factory at Alfeld an der Leine in Germany

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

Paul Klee becomes a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar

The Swiss architect Le Corbusier begins a 20-year partnership with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret