1720 in architecture
# 1720 in architecture

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)

## Deaths

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