This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in architecture and related disciplines including structural engineering, landscape architecture and city planning. One significant architectural achievement is listed for each year. Articles for each year (in bold text, below) are summarized here with a significant event as a reference point. - 1999 - Jewish Museum Berlin, designed by Daniel Libeskind is completed.
- 1998 - Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, designed by César Pelli is completed. World tallest building 1998-2004.
- 1998 - Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art by Steven Holl Architects, opens to the public.
- 1997 - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao designed by Frank Gehry.
- 1996 - Oscar Niemeyer completes the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
- 1996 - Aronoff Center for Design and Art, University of Cincinnati completed by Peter Eisenman.
- 1995 - Steven Holl Architects begin construction of St. Ignatius Chapel at Seattle University.
- 1994 - Building of the Basel Signal Box by Herzog and de Meuron
- 1993 - The Umeda Sky Building in Osaka City, Japan is completed.
- 1992 - The Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina is completed.
- 1991 - Stansted Airport terminal building in Essex, England, designed by Norman Foster, is completed.
- 1990 - Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota completed by Frank Gehry.
- 1979 - Charles Moore designs the Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans.
- 1978 - Charles Eames dies.
- 1977 - Frank Gehry redesigns his own house in Santa Monica, California.
- 1976 - The CN Tower in Toronto opens as the tallest freestanding structure on land.
- 1975 - Completion of the Seoul Tower in Seoul, South Korea.
- 1974 - National Assembly Building in Dakka, Bangladesh, is completed.
- 1973 - The World Trade Center towers, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, are opened in New York.
- 1972 - The Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, California, designed by William Pereira, is completed.
- 1971 - Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, designed by Mark Rothko and Philip Johnson is completed.
- 1970 - Construction begins on the Sears Tower in Chicago, designed by Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan (of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill).
- 1939 - The 1939 World's Fair in New York includes the Finnish Pavilion by Alvar Aalto and the Brazilian Pavilion by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer.
- 1938 - Frank Lloyd Wright purchases 800 acres (3.2 km2) of land 26 miles away from Phoenix, and begins to build Taliesin West, his winter home, in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- 1937 - Wright completes his house Fallingwater, at Bear Run, Pennsylvania.
- 1936 - Frank Lloyd Wright designs his monumental inward-looking Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, USA.
- 1935 - Cass Gilbert's United States Supreme Court Building is posthumously finished.
- 1934 - Frank Lloyd Wright draws up plans for his Broadacre City, a decentralized urban metropolis.
- 1933 - The Bauhaus closes under Nazi pressure.
- 1932 - The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York holds its exhibition on modern architecture, coining the term "International Style."
- 1931 - The Empire State Building, designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, becomes the tallest building in the world.
- 1930 - William Van Alen completes the Chrysler Building, an Art Deco skyscraper in New York, USA.
- 1899 - Hector Guimard is commissioned to design the edicules for the Paris Métropolitain, which have become a hallmark of Art Nouveau design.
- 1898 - Victor Horta designs his own house, now the Horta Museum.
- 1897 - Hendrik Berlage designs his Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
- 1896 - Eugène Vallin completes his own house and studio in Nancy (France), which is the first of many Art Nouveau structures built there by the members of the École de Nancy.
- 1895 - The Biltmore Estate, the largest house in the USA, is completed for the Vanderbilt family in Asheville, North Carolina.
- 1894 - Louis Sullivan builds the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, NY, USA.
- 1893 - Victor Horta builds what is widely considered the first full-fledged Art Nouveau structure, the Hôtel Tassel, in Brussels.
- 1892 - Modernist architect Richard Neutra is born.
- 1891 - Louis Sullivan completes his Wainwright Building in Saint Louis.
- 1890 - Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler build the Auditorium Building in Chicago.
- 1829 - The panopticon-design Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, designed by John Havilland, opens.
- 1828 - Completion of the Marble Arch in London, designed by John Nash.
- 1827 - William Burges, Gothic Revival architect in Britain, is born.
- 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge over the Menai Strait, in Wales, designed by Thomas Telford, is completed.
- 1825 - The front and rear porticoes of the White House are added to the building.
- 1824 - The Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, Ireland is completed.
- 1823 - Work begins on the British Museum in London, designed by (Sir) Robert Smirke.
- 1822 - Birth of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
- 1821 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel completeds his Schauspielhaus in Berlin.
- 1820 - Death of Benjamin Latrobe.
- 1809 - Birth of city planner Baron Haussmann.
- 1808 - Construction begins on the Paris Bourse, designed by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart.
- 1807 - The Templo de Nuestra Señora del Carmen in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico is completed.
- 1806 - Arc de Triomphe, Paris from Jean Chalgrin commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte.
- 1805 - The Ellesmere Canal, designed by Thomas Telford, is completed.
- 1804 - Completion of the Government House in the Bahamas.
- 1803 - The Raj Bhavan in Kolkata, West Bengal, India is finished.
- 1802 - The Temple of Saint Philip Neri in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico is completed.
- 1801 - Birth of Henri Labrouste.
- 1800 - The White House in Washington D.C. is completed by team of client George Washington, planner Pierre L'Enfant, and architect James Hoban.
[edit] 17th century - 1690s - The city of Noto, Italy, on Sicily, is devastated by an earthquake (1693), and a rebuilding program begins in the Baroque style.
- 1680s - Church of Les Invalides, Paris is built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart.
- 1670s - The Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, designed by Christopher Wren is completed (1676).
- 1660s - Louis XIV, with the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart, begins to enlarge the Palace of Versailles (1661).
- 1650s - Completion of the church Sant'Agnese in Agone in Rome, designed by Borromini and Carlo Rainaldi.
- 1640s - Borromini builds the church Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza in Rome.
- 1630s - Emperor Shah Jahan construct Taj Mahal in Agra, India.
- 1630s - Borromini builds the church San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome.
- 1620s - Bernini constructs the church of Santa Susanna in Rome (1624).
- 1610s - Mohammadreza Isfahani builds Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Iran.
- 1600s - 33 pol bridge is constructed in Isfahan, Iran.
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