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1913
 
     
Construction begins on the government buildings in New Delhi, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert 1Baker        
Edwin Lutyens, by Robert Lutyens, 1959
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1914
 
    
A building by Walter Gropius for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Cologne brings him international attention       
1914
 
    
Antoni Gaudí completes the fanciful Park Güell, a residential project north of Barcelona based on the English concept of the garden city       
1915
 
    
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret develops Maison Domino, a system of low-cost housing with reinforced concrete columns and precast floors       
1916
 
    
The Villa Schwob is completed, the last house designed by Le Corbusier in La Chaux-de-Fonds and one of the first in the world to use reinforced concrete       
1919
 
    
Walter Gropius becomes director of the newly formed Bauhaus in Weimar       
1920
 
    
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret launches and edits a radical architectural journal, L'Esprit Nouveau       
1920
 
    
The Swiss architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret adopts the simpler Le Corbusier as a pseudonym in L'Esprit Nouveau       
1921
 
    
The Swiss architect Le Corbusier begins a 20-year partnership with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret       
1923
 
    
Le Corbusier publishes an influential collection of his articles under the title Towards a New Architecture