1738 in architecture

See also: 1737 in architecture, other events of 1738, 1739 in architecture and the architecture timeline.

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Events

• William Kent is appointed to remodel Rousham House and gardens in Oxfordshire, England, "a landmark in the history of the Romantic movement."^[1]

Buildings

San Simeone Piccolo

• Château de Bagnolet, Paris.
• San Simeone Piccolo on the Grand Canal (Venice), designed by Giovanni Antonio Scalfarotto, completed.
• Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Palma, Algeciras, Spain, designed by Alonso Barranco and completed by Isidro Casaus.
• Welsh Charity School, Clerkenwell, London, designed by James Steer.
• Residenz Ansbach reconstruction completed by Leopold Retti.

Publications

• Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni – Description abregée de l'eglise Saint Pierre de Rome (Paris)

Births

• Matvey Kazakov, Russian neoclassical architect (died 1812)
• Approximate date - John Palmer of Bath, English architect (died 1817)

Deaths

• January 20 - Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect, designer and painter (born 1659)
• March 16 - George Bähr, German architect; designer of Protestant churches (born 1666)
• Date unknown - Francis Smith of Warwick, English architect (born 1672)

References

1. Sherwood, Jennifer (1974). "Rousham Park". In Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus. Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 740–6. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.