1723 in architecture
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The year 1723 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- Mavisbank House in Loanhead, Scotland is designed by William Adam.[1]
- 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.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).
Births
- John Carr (died 1807)
- William Chambers (died 1796)
Deaths
- February 25 - Christopher Wren (born 1632)
- April 5 - Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (born 1656)
References
- ^ Colvin, Howard (1978). A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840. London: John Murray. ISBN 0719533287.