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Timeline of architecture

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This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in architecture and related disciplines including structural engineering, landscape architecture, and city planning. One significant architectural achievement is listed for each year.

Contents Summary of events in architecture – by year
21st Century: 2000s2010s2020s
20th Century: 1900s1910s1920s1930s1940s1950s1960s1970s1980s1990s
19th Century: 1800s1810s1820s1830s1840s1850s1860s1870s1880s1890s
18th Century: 1700s1710s1720s1730s1740s1750s1760s1770s1780s1790s
Pre-18th Century: 1000s1100s1200s1300s1400s1500s1600s
Neolithic3rd millennium BC2nd millennium BC1st millennium BC1st millennium AD

Articles for each year (in bold text, below) are summarized here with a significant event as a reference point.

2020s

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2010s

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2000s

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1990s

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1980s

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1970s

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1960s

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1950s

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1940s

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1930s

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1920s

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1910s

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1900s

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1890s

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1880s

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1870s

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1860s

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1850s

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1840s

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1830s

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1820s

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1810s

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1800s

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1790s

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1780s

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1770s

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1760s

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1750s

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1740s

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1730s

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1720s

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1710s

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1700s

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17th century

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16th century

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15th century

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14th century

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13th century

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12th century

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11th century

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1st millennium AD

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1st millennium BC

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2nd millennium BC

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3rd millennium BC

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Neolithic

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  • 4th millennium BCHarappa ancient city built.
  • 5th millennium BC – (5000–3000 BC) Yangshao culture in China.
  • 6th millennium BC – (6000–2000 BC) Emergence of wooden frames in Chinese architecture including the use of mortise and tenon joinery to build wood beamed houses.
  • 7th millennium BCÇatalhöyük in Anatolia constructed without streets.
  • 8th millennium BC – Lahuradewa architecture in Ganges plains of India. Early Mehrgarh settlement sites in Indian subcontinent. Earliest town sites with simple residential neighbourhoods in Jarmo, Jericho, and Ain Ghazal on the Levant.
  • 10th millennium BCGöbekli Tepe in Turkey, an ancient structure believed to be the first place of worship.

References

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  1. ^ Fondazione Renzo Piano. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  2. ^ Guest, Ivor (1991). Dr. John Radcliffe and His Trust. London: The Radcliffe Trust. p. 149. ISBN 0-9502482-1-5.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Calkins, Robert G. (1998). "2, Early Christian Buildings". Medieval Architecture in Western Europe, From A.D. 300 to 1500. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 14–30.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Calkins, Robert G. (1998). "1, Classical Antecedents". Medieval Architecture in Western Europe, From A.D. 300 to 1500. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1–13.
  5. ^ Norwich, John Julius, ed.. great architecture of the world: from ancient times to the present, with more than 800 diagrams, drawings, and photographs. 2001. 68. ISBN 0306810425
  6. ^ Stonehenge#After the monument (1600 BC on)

See also

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