1723 in architecture

The year 1723 in architecture involved some significant events.

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Buildings and structures

Buildings

Mavisbank House, Scotland

• Mavisbank House in Midlothian is designed by William Adam[1] in collaboration with his client, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, and is constructed between 1723 and 1727, the first Palladian villa in Scotland.[2]
• St Mary le Strand in London, designed by James Gibbs, becomes the first wholly new church completed for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches.
• Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, Bologna, Italy, is designed by Carlo Francesco Dotti.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean Pinard.

Births

• February 23 – William Chambers, Swedish-born Scottish architect (died 1796)
• April 28 – John Carr, English architect (died 1807)

Deaths

• February 25 – Christopher Wren, English architect and scientist (born 1632)
• April 5 – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian baroque architect (born 1656)

References

1. Colvin, Howard (1978). A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840. London: John Murray. ISBN 0719533287.
2. Cruickshank, Dan (1985). A Guide to the Georgian Buildings of Britain & Ireland. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 226–7. ISBN 0-297-78610-5.