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c. 8000 BCE

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c. 6500 BCE

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Go to Khirokitia in The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture (1 ed.)

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c. 4000 BCE

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c. 2620 BCE

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c. 2580 BCE

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c. 2500 BCE

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Go to Newgrange, Co. Meath, Ireland in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.)

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c. 2000 BCE

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c. 1500 BCE

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c. 1400 BCE

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c. 1380 BCE

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c. 1250 BCE

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c. 1000 BCE

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c. 650 BCE

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530 BCE

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518 BCE

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447 BCE

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c. 410 BCE

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c. 350 BCE

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c. 340 BCE

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c. 280 BCE

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c. 215 BCE

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c. 200 BCE
c. 120 BCE

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c. 20 BCE

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c. 20

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c. 120

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c. 200

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c. 315

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c. 320

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360

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c. 450

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c. 535

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537

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607

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691

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c. 800

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805

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862

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c. 900

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1093

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c. 1130

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1132

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1142

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1144

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1175

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1238

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1243

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1298

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c. 1300

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c. 1320

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c. 1340

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1345

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c. 1350

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c. 1390

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1397

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1405

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1410

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1415

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1418

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c. 1420

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1430

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c. 1450

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1462
1471

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c. 1500

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1506

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1514
1527

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1557

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1563

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c. 1570

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1571

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1573

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1590

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1599

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1609

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1618

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1629

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1632

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1634

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1664

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1667

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c. 1670

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1673
c. 1675

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1710

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1714

Go to Asam, Cosmas Damian (28 Sept. 1686) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1715

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1717

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1735

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1746

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1750
1757
1767

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1770

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1792
1800
1805
1815
1822
c. 1835
1836
1837
1851
1852
1856
1859
1863
1881

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1883

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1898
1901

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1904

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1906

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Go to Lanchester, Henry Vaughan (1863–1953) in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.)

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Go to Gaudí (y Cornet), Antonio (1852–1926) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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1907

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1908

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1910

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Go to Loos, Adolf (1870–1933) in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.)

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1911

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Go to Wright, Frank Lloyd (1867–1959) in A Dictionary of Modern Design (1 ed.)

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Go to Gropius, Walter (1883–1969) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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c. 1912

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1913

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Go to Woolworth, Frank Winfield (1852–1919) in The Encyclopedia of the History of American Management (1 ed.)

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Go to Canberra in The Oxford Companion to Australian History (1 rev ed.)

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Go to Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer (1869–1944) in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.)

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1914

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Go to Gaudí y Cornet, Antonio (1852–1926) in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.)

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1915

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1916

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1919

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1920

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Go to Corbusier, Le (1887–1965) in A Dictionary of Modern Design (1 ed.)

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1921

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1923

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1926

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Go to Gaudí, Antoni (1852–1926) in A Dictionary of Modern Design (1 ed.)

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Go to Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig (1886–1969) in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.)

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Go to Gropius, Walter (1883–1969) in A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2 ed.)

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1927

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1928

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1930

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Go to Alen, William van (1883–1954) in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.)

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1931

Go to Empire State Building. (1931) in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.)

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1932

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1934

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Go to Lubetkin, Berthold Romanovitch (1901–90) in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.)

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Go to Gropius, Walter (1883–1969) in A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2 ed.)

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1935

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c. 1936

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Go to March, Werner (1894–1976) in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.)

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1937

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1938

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c. 1945

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1948

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1949

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1950

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1951

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Go to Matisse, Henri (31 Dec. 1869) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1952

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1953

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1954

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1957

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Go to Niemeyer, Oscar (1907– ) in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.)

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1958

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1959

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1960

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1962

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1963
1966

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1967

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1973

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1974
1975
1976

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1977

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1983

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1984

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1987

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1988

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Go to Gehry, Frank Owen (1929– ) in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.)

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1993

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1994

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1997

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1998
2010

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