1737 in architecture explained

The year 1737 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• November 4 – The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (Italy), designed by Giovanni Antonio Medrano under the direction of Charles VII of Naples, officially opens
• Palladian Bridge, Wilton House (England), designed by Roger Morris, is completed.
• Fuerte San Miguel (Uruguay).
• Samuel Eliot House in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
• Black Swan Hotel, Devizes, England.
• The ceiling of the chapter house in Porto Cathedral is decorated.
• Approximate date – New Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, England, designed by James Paine, begun.

Publications

• Andrea Palladio – I quattro libri dell'architettura^[1]

Births

• June 7 – Jacques Gondouin, French architect and designer (died 1818)
• September 8 – Samuel Wyatt, English architect and engineer (died 1807)

Deaths

• March 8 – Domenico Rossi, Swiss-Italian architect (born 1657)
• December 21 – Alessandro Galilei, Florentine mathematician, architect and theorist (born 1691)

Notes and References

1. http://www.specialcollections.mmu.ac.uk/index.php?page_id=12&img=3 Special Collections – Manchester Society of Architecture.