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1908 |
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Georgia Tech begins architecture instruction |
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1909 |
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Robie House Frank Lloyd Wright Chicago |
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1914-1918 |
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First World War; U.S. enters 1917 |
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1922 |
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Kings Road House R.M. Schindler Los Angeles, California |
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1924 |
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Schroeder Schrader House Gerrit Reitveld Utrecht, Holland |
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1925 |
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Bauhaus Walter Gropius Dessau, Germany |
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1926 |
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Lovell Beach House R.M. Schindler Newport Beach, California |
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1928 |
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CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) founded in 1928 at the Chateau de La Sarraz, Switzerland by Le Corbusier, Sigfried Giedion and architectural patroness Hélène de Mandrot. CIAM served for several decades as the organizational center of the modern movement in architecture. |
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1929 |
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U.S. Stock-market crash |
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Lovell Health House Richard Neutra Los Angeles, California |
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Villa Savoye Le Corbusier Poissy, France |
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German Pavillion Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Barcelona, Spain |
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1931 |
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Sam T. Weyman Memorial Laboratory Tucker and Howell, with Oscar Stonorov Highlands, North Carolina |
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1932 |
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Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building George Howe and William Lescaze Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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International Style Exhibit, MOMA New York, New York |
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1933 |
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Roosevelt proclaims New Deal |
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Paimio Sanitorium Alvar Aalto Tuku, Finland |
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1936 |
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Casa Del Fascio Guiseppe Terragni Como, Italy |
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Techwood Homes Burge and Stevens Atlanta, Georgia |
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Norris Dam Tennessee Valley Authority Clinch River, Tennessee |
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1937 |
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David Armstrong McNeill, Sr. House Edward Durell Stone Thomson, Georgia |
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1938-1950 |
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Peachtree Hills Apartments Burge and Stevens Atlanta, Georgia |
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1939 |
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Germany invades Poland; World War II initiated |
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First antibiotic discovered: penicillin |
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1940 |
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Judge S. Price Gilbert Residence Burge and Stevens Arden, Georgia |
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1941 |
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor: U.S. enters World War II |
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1945 |
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United Nations Charter signed |
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Television licensed for commercial use |
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1946 |
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Kauffman Desert House Richard Neutra Palm Springs, California |
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1947-48 |
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The Atlanta Constitution Building Robert and Company Atlanta, Georgia |
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1948 |
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MIT Baker House Student Dormitory Alvar Aalto Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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1948-1950 |
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Lustron Homes Carl Standlund 20 of the 2,498 original Lustron home sites in Georgia |
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1949 |
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Grady High School Stadium Aeck and Associates Atlanta, Georgia |
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1950-1953 |
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Korean War |
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1950 |
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Crisp County Courthouse Bernard A. Webb Cordele, Georgia |
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1951 |
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United Nations Building Wallace K. Harrison, with Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, and others New York, NY |
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Gulf Oil Building I.M. Pei Atlanta, Georgia |
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Farnsworth House Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Plano, Illinois |
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Drayton Tower Apartments Savannah, GA |
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1952 |
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Georgia Tech School of Architecture Building Bush-Brown, Gailey and Heffernan Atlanta, Georgia |
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1953 |
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Unite d' Habitation Le Corbusier Marseilles, France |
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1954 |
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U.S. Supreme Court outlaws racial segregation in public schools |
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1955 |
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Ronchamp Chapel Le Corbusier near Belfort, France |
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1956 |
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Georgia Center for Continuing Education Building Stevens and Wilkinson with George Nelson Athens, Georgia |
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1958 |
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Seagram Building Ludwig Mies van der Rohe New York, New York |
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1959 |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Frank Lloyd Wright New York, New York |
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Jet planes adopted for commercial use |
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CIAM XI, held in Otterlo, features the work of 43 selected architects. This final congress ended with a decision to dissolve CIAM definitively. |
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1960 |
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Atlanta Cabana Hotel Jay Sarno and Jo Harris, interior decorator Atlanta, Georgia Demolished 2002 |
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1961 |
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First manned space flight |
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Hartsfield Airport Robert and Co. Atlanta, Georgia |
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1962 |
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TWA Terminal Eero Saarinen New York, New York |
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1963 |
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University of Georgia Stadium Clarke, Cooper, Barrett, Skinner, Woodbury & Cooper with Chastain & Tindel engineer Athens, Georgia |
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1964 |
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Forty Marietta Building (First Federal Savings And Loan Association Building) Tomberlin and Sheetz, Chastain & Tindel engineer Atlanta, Georgia |
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Trust Company of Georgia Abreu and Robeson, Henri Jova designer Atlanta, Georgia |
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1965 |
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Salk Institute Louis Kahn La Jolla, California |
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Atlanta Stadium FABRAP and Heery & Heery Atlanta, Georgia demolished 1997 |
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1966 |
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Southworth Division of the Morris-Bryan Plant architect unknown Jefferson, Georgia |
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1967 |
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Habitat, Expo 67 Moshe Safdie Montreal, Canada |
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Regency Hyatt House John Portman Atlanta, Georgia |
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1968 |
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Martin Luther King assassinated |
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Equitable Building Skidmore, Owings, Merril with James Wylie Atlanta, Georgia |
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1972 |
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Demolition of Pruitt-Igoe Apartment Complex (1955) Minoru Yamasaki St. Louis, MO |
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1976 |
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Play Scapes - Piedmont Park Isamu Noguchi Atlanta, Georgia |
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1978 |
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Personal computers commercially available |
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1980 |
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Fulton County Public Library Marcel Breuer and Hamilton Smith Associated Architects with Stevens and Wilkinson Atlanta, Georgia |
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1981 |
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William R. Cannon Chapel Paul Rudolph with Tippett, Taylor and Anderson Atlanta, Georgia |
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