1771 in architecture

Updated on Nov 27, 2023

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The year 1771 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Bath Assembly Rooms, designed by John Wood the Younger, completed in England.

Claydon House, the second English country house completed on this site in Buckinghamshire.

Harewood House in West Yorkshire, England, a country house designed by John Carr and Robert Adam, is completed.

Pavillon de Louveciennes in Louveciennes, Yvelines, France, designed by Claude Nicolas Ledoux, is completed.

Putuo Zongcheng Temple of Chengde, Hebei province, China is completed.

Thatched House Lodge in the (modern-day) London Borough of Richmond upon Thames is remodelled as a royal residence by John Soane.

Second phase of building the new Stockholm Palace is completed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz.

Façade of church of San Rocco, Venice, designed by Bernardino Maccarucci, completed.

Joseph Gandy, English architectural artist and architect (died 1843)

February 21 - Filippo Raguzzini, Italian architect (born 1690)

April 29 - Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, French-born Italian architect working in Saint Petersburg (born 1700)

William Baker of Audlem, English architect (born 1705)

Edmund Woolley, English-born American architect and master carpenter (born c.1695)

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