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

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

The monastery and town of Monte Cassino are left in ruins after the Allies finally break through the German defences

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