Timeline of Architecture - 1930s

1930s

• 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.