1753 in architecture

The year 1753 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

 * Horse Guards in London, designed by William Kent and John Vardy, is completed.
 * State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton, is completed.
 * New Branicki Palace, Warsaw, designed by Johann Sigmund Deybel, is completed.
 * First stage of Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival 'castle' at Strawberry Hill House near London is completed.
 * Kastrupgård in Copenhagen, designed by Jacob Fortling for himself, is completed.
 * Carlyle House, Alexandria, Virginia, is completed.
 * Cuvilliés Theatre in the Munich Residenz, Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is opened.
 * Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in Schwetzingen Palace, Baden-Württemberg, designed by Nicolas de Pigage, is opened.
 * Confidencen theatre in Ulriksdal Palace, Sweden, with interior completed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, is opened.
 * Teatro Carignano in Turin, designed by Benedetto Alfieri, is opened.
 * Church of Santa Caterina (Livorno), designed by Giovanni Del Fantasia, is opened.
 * New church of San Geremia in Venice, designed by Carlo Corbellini, is built.
 * Sunehri Masjid, Lahore ('Golden Mosque'), designed by Nawab Syed Bhikari Khan, is built.
 * Outer Pagoda of Monk Wansong in Beijing is built.
 * Barakoni church in Georgia is commissioned from Avtandil Shulavreli.

Births

 * January 6 – Samuel Pepys Cockerell, English architect (died 1827)
 * September 10 – John Soane, English architect (died 1837)
 * Henry A. Baker, Irish architect (died 1836)
 * Laurynas Gucevičius, Lithuanian architect (died 1798)

Deaths

 * February 9 – Carl Hårleman, Swedish architect (born 1700)
 * August 19 – Balthasar Neumann, German baroque architect (born 1687)
 * December 15 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English Palladian architect and politician (born 1694)