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1950
 
    
Le Corbusier begins a 15-year project designing Chandigarh as a new joint capital for Punjab and Hariyana       
1951
 
    
British architects Arnold Powell and John Moya design the Skylon as a central feature for the Festival of Britain       
1951
 
    
British architect Basil Spence wins the competition to design a new cathedral for Coventry       
1951
 
    
British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner undertakes a massive task, a county-by-county description of The Buildings of England       
1951
 
    
Henri Matisse completes the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, with every detail designed by himself       
1952
 
    
Le Corbusier's completes his most massive modernist development, the Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles       
1953
 
    
US architect Louis Kahn makes his reputation with the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven       
1954
 
     
Le Corbusier completes the reinforced-concrete pilgrimage church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp        
1957
 
    
Danish architect Jørn Utzon wins the competition to design Sydney Opera House       
1957
 
    
Oscar Niemeyer is appointed chief architect for his country's new capital, Brasilia