1783 in architecture
# 1783 in architecture

The year 1783 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

* September 24 – The Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed by Antonio Rinaldi, opens with a performance of Paisiello's opera Il mondo della luna.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings completed

* New Vilnius Cathedral in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, designed by Laurynas Gucevičius, is consecrated.
* Façade of Carmelite Church, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Efraim Szreger, is completed
* Laleli Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, is rebuilt after a fire.
* Boston Light (lighthouse) rebuilt on the site of an earlier one destroyed in the American Revolution.

## Awards

* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Antoine Vaudoyer.

## Births

* May 14 – Giuseppe Jappelli, Venetian architect (died 1852)
* June 2 – Solomon Willard, Massachusetts craftsman, architect and builder (died 1861)

## Deaths

* February 6 – Capability Brown, English landscape architect (born 1716)
