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

 * 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)