Timeline of Architecture - 1940s

1940s

• 1949 – Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut designed by Philip Johnson.
• 1948 – Pietro Belluschi completes the Equitable Building in Portland, Oregon.
• 1947 – Alvar Aalto builds the Baker House dormitories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• 1946 – Le Corbusier draws up plans for La Rochelle-La Pallice, while his efforts to redesign Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (both cities in France) are foiled.
• 1945 – John Entenza launches the Case Study Houses Program through his post as editor of Arts & Architecture magazine.
• 1944 – Frank Lloyd Wright builds the research tower for his Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin.
• 1943 – Oscar Niemeyer completes his Pampulha project in Brazil.
• 1942 – Vichy rejects Le Corbusier's Obus E plan for Algiers.
• 1941 – Le Corbusier offers his services to the Vichy regime.
• 1940 – Peter Behrens dies.