1720 in architecture
The year 1720 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
- First Prix de Rome in architecture awarded in France to Antoine Derizet.
- Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù converted into a theatre.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- Massachusetts Hall (Harvard University) is completed.
- Rebuilding of All Saints Church, Oxford is completed to designs by Henry Aldrich with tower and spire probably by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
- 213 and 215 King's Road, Chelsea, London.
- Baroque remodelling of the Church of the Teutonic Order, Vienna, probably by Anton Erhard Martinelli.
- Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple in Bârsana, Romania.
- Replacement wooden Holy Trinity Church, Zhovkva, Ukraine.
- Schloss Bruchsal in Baden is commissioned from Anselm von Grünstein.
Births
- March 22 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect
- October 4 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher of architectural views
- November 30 - André Soares, Portuguese sculptor and architect