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==1940s== *'''[[1949 in architecture|1949]]''' β [[Glass House]] in [[New Canaan, Connecticut]] designed by [[Philip Johnson]]. *'''[[1948 in architecture|1948]]''' β [[Pietro Belluschi]] completes the [[Equitable Building (Portland)|Equitable Building]] in [[Portland, Oregon]]. *'''[[1947 in architecture|1947]]''' β [[Alvar Aalto]] builds the [[List of MIT undergraduate dormitories#Baker House|Baker House]] dormitories at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. *'''[[1946 in architecture|1946]]''' β [[Le Corbusier]] draws up plans for [[La Rochelle]]-[[La Pallice]], while his efforts to redesign [[Saint-DiΓ©-des-Vosges]] (both cities in [[France]]) are foiled. *'''[[1945 in architecture|1945]]''' β [[John Entenza]] launches the [[Case Study Houses]] Program through his post as editor of ''[[Arts & Architecture]]'' magazine. *'''[[1944 in architecture|1944]]''' β [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] builds the research tower for his [[Johnson Wax Headquarters]] in [[Racine, Wisconsin]]. *'''[[1943 in architecture|1943]]''' β [[Oscar Niemeyer]] completes his [[Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)|Pampulha]] project in Brazil. *'''[[1942 in architecture|1942]]''' β [[Vichy France|Vichy]] rejects Le Corbusier's [[Obus E]] plan for [[Algiers]]. *'''[[1941 in architecture|1941]]''' β [[Australian War Memorial]] in [[Canberra]], [[Australia]], completed. *'''[[1940 in architecture|1940]]''' β [[Peter Behrens]] dies.
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