Timeline of Architecture - 1850s

1850s

• 1859 – Birth of Louis Majorelle and Cass Gilbert.
• 1858 – The competition to design Central Park in New York is won by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
• 1857 – Founding of the American Institute of Architects.
• 1856 – Louis Sullivan and Eugène Vallin are born.
• 1855 – The Palais d'Industrie is built for the World's Fair in Paris.
• 1854 –
• 1853 – Baron Haussmann becomes prefect of the Seine département and begins his vast urban renovations of Paris.
• 1852 – Antoni Gaudí is born.
• 1851 – The Crystal Palace designed by Joseph Paxton.
• 1850 – Lluis Domènech í Montaner and John W. Root are born.