
Labworth Cafe, Canvey Island (1940s)
Designer: Arup, Sir Ove (1895-1988)
Copyright: Morley von Sternberg/RIBA British Architectural Library Photographs Collection (2003)
1960 - Prof. Pier Luigi Nervi, Italy
1961 - Lewis Mumford, USA
1962 - Sven Gottfried Markelius, Sweden
1963 - The Lord Holford
1964 - Edwin Maxwell Fry|
1965 - Kenzo Tange, Japan
1966 - Ove Arup|
1967 - Sir Nikolaus Pevsner|
1968 - Richard Buckminster Fuller, USA
1969 - Jack Antonio Coia
RGM in historical context - world events in this decade
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1961
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The Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, is completed.
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Archigram begins to dominate the architectural avant-garde with its playful, pop-inspired visions of a technocratic future after it is formed by a group of young London architects: Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs is published.
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1962
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Coventry Cathedral in England, designed by Basil Spence, is completed.
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1963
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US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
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1964
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The Tokyo Olympic Arena, designed by Kenzo Tange, is completed.
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The BT Tower in London, designed by the architects of the Ministry of Public Building and Works (chiefly Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats) is topped out.
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1966
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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi is published, his first attack on modernist architecture.
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1968
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The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is opened.
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1969
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US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin achieve the world's first moon landing.
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