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| c. 1130 |
| | The full flowering of the Romanesque style is seen in the nave of the abbey church at Vézelay, in France | |
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| 1144 |
| | The new abbey church of St Denis is consecrated near Paris, introducing the style of architecture later known as Gothic | |
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| 1243 |
| | Construction begins in Paris on the Sainte Chapelle, designed to house relics acquired by Louis IX, the king of France | |
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| 1527 |
| | Francis I begins to transform Fontainebleau into a palace, employing artists who establish the mannerist school of Fontainebleau | |
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| 1664 |
| | Louis XIV commissions a well-established team of designers to provide him with a spectacular palace and garden at Versailles | |
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| 1920 |
| | Charles-Édouard Jeanneret launches and edits a radical architectural journal, L'Esprit Nouveau | |
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| 1920 |
| | The Swiss architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret adopts the simpler Le Corbusier as a pseudonym in L'Esprit Nouveau | |
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| 1921 |
| | The Swiss architect Le Corbusier begins a 20-year partnership with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret | |
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| 1923 |
| | Le Corbusier publishes an influential collection of his articles under the title Towards a New Architecture | |
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| 1926 |
| | The Austrian architect Adolf Loos builds a house in Paris for the Romanian dadaist poet Tristan Tzara | |
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