Timeline of Architecture - 1960s

1960s

• 1969 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius die.
• 1968 – Mies van der Rohe's New National Gallery in Berlin finished.
• 1967 – Expo 67 in Montreal features the American pavilion, a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller, and the Habitat 67 housing complex designed by Moshe Safdie.
• 1966 – The Gateway Arch by Eero Saarinen is finished in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1965 – NASA's Cape Canaveral VAB, the Niagara Skylon Tower, the Tel-Aviv Shalom Meir tower and the Salk Institute all open.
• 1964 – The Unisphere heads New York World's Fair.
• 1963 – The Palace of Assembly at Chandigarh, India, is finished.
• 1962 – Seattle Space needle & TWA Terminal by Saarinen at JFK are opened.
• 1961 – Louis Kahn finishes the Richards Medical Building at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
• 1960 – Lucio Costa & Oscar Niemeyer plan buildings of Brasilia, new capital of Brazil.