Timeline of Architecture - 1950s

1950s

• 1959 – Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York is finished after 16 years of work on the project.
• 1958 – The Seagram Building in New York designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson is completed.
• 1957 – The Interbau 57 exposition in Berlin features structures by Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius and his The Architects' Collaborative (TAC), and an unité by Le Corbusier.
• 1956 – Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is finished.
• 1955 – Completion of Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut chapel at Ronchamp, France.
• 1954 – Louis Kahn finishes his Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
• 1953 – Completion of the United Nations Headquarters in New York by a design team headed by Wallace Harrison and Max Abramowitz.
• 1952 – Le Corbusier completes his Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles.
• 1951 – Mies van der Rohe's Lake Shore Drive Apartments completed in Chicago.
• 1950 – Eames House completed in Santa Monica, California, designed by Charles and Ray Eames.