1720 in architecture explained

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 (in The High) 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 (one of the wooden churches of Maramureș).
• 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 (d. 1799)
• October 4  - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher of architectural views (d. 1778)
• November 30  - André Soares, Portuguese sculptor and architect (d. 1769)