1764 in architecture
# 1764 in architecture

The year 1764 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Events

* Robert Adam's Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia published.
* Heidelberg Castle (Holy Roman Empire, Germany) is again burned and destroyed by a thunderbolt.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* Exeter Synagogue (England) is dedicated.
* New All Saints Church, Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, designed by Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, with James "Athenian" Stuart, is built.
* Church of St. Stephen, Borovo in Serbia is completed.
* Iglesia Mayor de San Pedro y San Pablo in San Fernando, Cádiz, is consecrated.
* Bell tower of Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (Valdemoro) in Spain is completed.
* Saint John the Baptist Church, Târgu Mureș in the Habsburg Empire, designed by Jesuit Valentin Scherzer, is built.
* Church of the Intercession at Kizhi Pogost in Karelia is rebuilt.
* Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab, is rebuilt.
* Custom House, Lancaster, England is designed by Richard Gillow in the Palladian style.
* Holkham Hall, England, is completed in the Palladian style by William Kent after thirty years of building work.
* The Yellow Palace, Copenhagen, is completed by Nicolas-Henri Jardin for the timber merchant H. F. Bargum. It later becomes a residence of the Danish royal family.
* Château du Prada in France, designed by Victor Louis, is built.
* The Chinese House in Sanssouci Park, Potsdam (Prussia), designed by Johann Gottfried Büring, is completed.
* Jade Belt Bridge in grounds of Summer Palace, Beijing (Qing dynasty China) is completed.
* Sandy Hook Light, New Jersey, is designed and built by Isaac Conro.
* Construction work begins on the Theatre Royal, Bristol, England, designed by James Paty.
* Remodelling of Łazienki Palace in Warsaw by Domenico Merlini is begun (completed 1795).

## Births

* May 1 – Benjamin Latrobe, British-born American neoclassical architect best known for the United States Capitol (died 1820)
* July 9 – Louis-Pierre Baltard, French architect and engraver (died 1846)
* August 22 – Charles Percier, French neoclassical architect, interior decorator and designer (died 1838)

## Deaths

* August 7 – James Burrough, English academic, antiquary and amateur architect (born 1691)
* Unknown – Giovanni Antonio Scalfarotto, Venetian architect (born c.1700)
