Cuicuilco Pyramid built in Mexico
-99999
Great Pyramid at Giza built
-3099
Knossos built
-2099
Hypostyle Hall built
-1299
Stonehenge built
-6999
Ziggurat built
-2574
Treasury of Atreus built
-1999
Lion Gate constructed
-1289
Sargon II's palace constructed
-1249
Palace of Darius constructed
-574
Temple of Hera II built
-499
Erechtheion temple constructed
-446
Ellora Caves constructed
-389
Dendera Temple complex completed
-174
Ishtar Gate built
-705
Royal Audience Hall built
-509
Parthenon built
-459
Philippeion built
-404
Altar of Zeus Agoraios built
-199
Colosseum in Rome built
-36
City of Thamugadi founded
71
Work begins on Hadrian's Wall
119
Baths of Caracalla built
201
Diocletian's Palace built
217
Old Saint Peter's Basilica built
314
Basilica of San Vitale built
538
Hōryū-ji Temple built
601
Abbey of Saint Gall built
716
Palatine Chapel, Aachen constructed
785
Great Mosque of Samarra built
851
Pantheon rebuilt
101
The Treasury in Petra constructed
123
Leptis Magna dedicated
207
Basilica of Constantine finished
306
Hagia Sophia constructed
327
Puuc architectural style begins
541
Great Mosque of Damascus built
608
Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba built
721
Borobudur temple built
791
Baptistery of Saint John built
862
St. Michael's Church constructed
1000
Pisa Cathedral built
1001
San Miniato al Monte
1061
Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
1072
Durham Cathedral, England
1089
Stave churches appear
1000
Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen
1051
San Marco Basilica rebuilt
1063
Jameh Mosque improved
1078
Angkor Wat built
1094
Basilica of Saint-Denis built
1114
Chartres Cathedral built
1143
Bourges Cathedral built
1164
Krak des Chevaliers constructed
1141
Notre-Dame work started
1146
Amiens Cathedral built
1196
Salisbury Cathedral founded
1220
Palazzo Pubblico built
1249
Sainte-Chapelle constructed
1221
Santa Maria Novella completed
1298
St. Vitus Cathedral started
1351
Filippo Brunelleschi builds Florence Cathedral
1359
Completion of Alhambra
1354
Palazzo Medici Riccardi built
1439
Leon Battista Alberti designs Santa Maria Novella
1453
Bramante designs the Tempietto
1494
Doge's Palace built
1421
St. Peter's Basilica started
1445
Vladislav Hall built
1457
Rebuilding of Château de Chambord
1516
Palazzo del Te built
1524
Michelangelo begins Capitoline Square
1538
Villa Rotonda, Vicenza designed
1547
El Escorial built
1555
Renaissance architecture in France
1503
Laurentian Library built
1520
Sebastiano Serlio published
1526
Michelangelo finishes Palazzo Farnese
1539
Saint Basil's Cathedral built
1551
Baroque style popular
1564
Blue Mosque built
1601
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane commissioned
1620
Great Fire of London
1657
Chapel of the Holy Shroud designed
1667
St. Paul's Cathedral designed
1670
Banqueting House designed
1610
St. Peter's Square built
1635
Louvre Colonnade designed
1667
Palace of Versailles built
1668
Melk Abbey renovated
1676
Church of St. Nicholas built
1703
Zwinger, Dresden built
1706
Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers built
1715
Royal Crescent built
1756
Royal Saltworks built
1769
Jefferson designs VA Capital
1785
Massachusetts State House built
1786
Blenheim Palace built
1704
Christ Church, Spitalfields designed
1710
Panthéon built
1744
Jefferson builds Monticello
1768
Newton Cenotaph designed
1776
Claude Ledoux tollhouses
1785
La Madeleine constructed
1796
Jefferson designs The Rotunda
1807
Royal Pavilion built
1813
Palace of Westminster built
1823
The Crystal Palace built
1844
John Soane designs house
1810
Altes Museum built
1816
Sainte-Geneviève Library constructed
1837
Webb designs Red House
1854
Arts and Crafts Movement
1861
Richard Norman Shaw designs Leyswood
1863
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts designed
1868
Royal Courts of Justice built
1873
Chicago School of Architecture
1877
Marshall Field's Wholesale Store
1882
Boston Public Library
1887
Monadnock Building designed
1889
The Fair Store designed
1890
World's Columbian Exposition held
1893
The Breakers Mansion completed
1895
Glasgow School of Art built
1896
Majolika house designed in Vienna
1898
Sullivan Center designed
1899
Haussmann designs Seine département
1852
Palais Garnier built
1860
Poelart designs Palais de Justice
1862
Reinforced concrete developed
1867
Trinity Church, Boston built
1872
Bedford Park designed
1875
Adler & Sullivan firm
1881
Auditorium Building designed
1886
Howard publishes Garden Cities of To-morrow
1888
Paris Exhibition opens
1889
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Winslow House
1893
Guaranty Building designed
1894
Maison du Peuple designed
1896
Beurs van Berlage designed
1897
Secession Building designed
1898
Gaudi designs Villa Bell Esguard
1900
Mackintosh designs Hill House
1901
Pennsylvania Station NYC designed
1904
Larkin Building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
1904
Otto Wagner designs Postal Savings Bank
1904
Antonio Gaudi designs Casa Milà
1905
Deutscher Werkbund founded
1907
Woolworth Building NYC designed
1908
Greene's design Gamble House
1908
Adolf Loos designs Looshaus
1909
Prairie style of architecture
1900
Paris Métro entrances
1900
Auguste Perret design apartment block
1903
Tony Garnier designs Cité Industrielle
1904
Albert Kahn designs car factory
1904
Stoclet Palace designed
1905
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Unity Temple
1906
J.M. Olbrich designs Darmstadt Artists' buildings
1907
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Robie House
1908
AEG turbine factory built
1909
Sagrada Família started
1910
Peter Behrens designs German Embassy
1911
Max Berg designs Jahrhunderthalle
1913
Bruno Taut designs Glass Pavilion
1914
Antonio Sant'Elia designs La Città Nuova
1914
Irving Gill designs Dodge House
1916
Walter Gropius heads Bauhaus
1918
Großes Schauspielhaus designed
1919
Adolf Loos designs Steiner House
1910
Fagus Factory designed
1911
Henri Sauvage designs apartments
1912
Edwin Lutyens designs Viceroy's House
1913
Henry van de Velde designs Werkbund Exhibit
1914
Le Corbusier designs Domino House
1915
De Stijl art movement formed
1917
Mendelsohn designs Einstein Tower
1919
Constructivism art movement formed
1920
Michel de Klerk designs Het Schip
1921
Chicago Tribune Tower competition
1922
Notre-Dame de Raincy completed
1923
Stockholm Public Library designed
1924
Weissenhof Estate completed
1927
Dymaxion house designed
1927
Van Nelle Tobacco Factory built
1928
CIAM first meets
1928
Le Corbusier begins Villa Savoye
1929
Tatlin's Tower designed
1920
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designs Glass Skyscraper
1921
Le Corbusier proposes Plan Voisin
1922
Le Corbusier publishes essays
1923
Rietveld designs Schroeder House
1924
Chrysler Building constructed
1925
Viipuri Library designed
1927
Villa Stein designed
1927
Hilversum Town Hall designed
1928
Barcelona Pavilion designed
1929
PSFS building constructed
1931
Architects leave Nazi Europe for USA
1933
Frank Lloyd Wright plans Broadacre City
1935
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Fallingwater
1936
Alvar Aalto designs World's Fair pavilion
1938
Tugendhat House designed
1930
International Style developed
1932
Casa del Fascio, Como designed
1934
Albert Speer designs Nazi Party Rally Grounds
1936
Albert Speers Nazi architecure
1937
Farnsworth House designed
1944
Eliel Saarinen designs church
1949
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Guggenheim Museum
1940
Philip Johnson designs Glass House
1947
Notre-Dame du Haut designed
1950
"New Brutalism" coined
1953
Seagram Building designed
1956
Palazzetto dello Sport designed
1957
Jonas Salk Institute designed
1958
Le Corbusier designs Palace of Assembly
1950
Lever House designed in NYC
1951
Eero Saarinen designs TWA Center
1955
Eero Saarinen designs Dulles International Airport
1957
Richards Medical Research Building designed
1957
City plans for Brasília, Brazil designed
1959
Vanna Venturi House designed
1960
Pompidou Centre designed
1968
Buckminster Fuller designs Expo pavilion
1964
Sydney Opera House designed
1973
New Harmony's Atheneum designed
1975
Pritzker Architectural Prize founded
1979
Gehry House designed
1979
Learning from Las Vegas book published
1972
Sears Tower built
1974
Les Espaces d'Abraxas designed
1976
Work begins on Hongkong Bank building
1979
National Museum of Roman Art built
1980
Cesar Pelli works on World Financial Center
1981
Neue Staatsgalerie built
1983
Haas House built
1985
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts opens
1987
Portland Public Service Building designed
1980
Louvre Pyramid constructed
1981
Philip Johnson's AT&T Building opens
1982
Christian de Portzamparc designs his City of Music
1984
Isozaki Arata designs LA Museum of Contemporary Art
1986
Tadao Ando's Japan Pavilion opens
1992
Frank Gehry's American Center opens in Paris
1994
Rafael Viñoly completes Tokyo International Forum
1996
Getty Center designed in LA
1997
Rem Koolhaas gains fame
1998
Renovation of Reichstag completed
1999
Sainsbury's Wing of the National Gallery opens
1990
Vitra furniture factory opens
1993
National Library of France completed
1995
Petronas Towers constructed
1996
Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao opens
1997
HKIA Opens
1998
Millennium Dome opens
1999
Sony Center opens in Berlin
2000
Designers of Tate Modern win award
2001
MOCA opens in LA
2001
Michael Graves wins lifetime achievement award
2001
'The Gherkin' Completed in London (Norman Foster)
2004
The High Line Redevelopment Begins, New York
2005
Opening of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2007
Beijing Olympic Stadium ("Bird’s Nest") Opens
2008
Sustainable architecture popularized
2000
Destruction of NYC World Trade Center
2001
Great Wall of China lengthened
2001
Opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles (Frank Gehry)
2003
Hurricane Katrina Devastates New Orleans
2005
Berlin Hauptbahnhof Opens
2006
Burj Khalifa Topped Out, Dubai
2007
Zaha Hadid Wins RIBA Stirling Prize
2009
London Olympic Park and Stadium Open
2012
The Broad Museum Construction Begins
2013
Zaha Hadid Becomes First Woman to Win the RIBA Gold Medal
2015
Opening of Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
2016
Jeanne Gang’s Studio Gang Named TIME’s Most Influential
2018
Wang Shu wins Pritzker Prize
2012
Market Hall opens, Rotterdam
2014
Milan Expo Highlights Sustainable Architecture
2015
Grenfell Tower Fire, London
2017
Notre-Dame Cathedral Fire, Paris
2019
COVID-19 Pandemic Reshapes Architectural Priorities
2020
Reopening of the Grand Palais, Paris
2024
Liu Jiakun Awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize
2025
Completion of the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge, Turkey
2022
Reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris
2024