Overview of the events of 1704 in architecture
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The year 1704 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- English architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh is commissioned to begin Blenheim Palace.
- Schleissheim Palace near Munich in Bavaria, designed by Enrico Zuccalli, is completed.
- Cound Hall, Shropshire, England, designed by John Prince or Price, is completed.
- Burgh House, Hampstead, London is built.
- Church of the Ascension, Hall Green, Birmingham, England, probably designed by Sir William Wilson, is consecrated.
- Construction of Hirado Castle in Nagasaki (Japan) begins.
- Construction on Ludwigsburg Palace begins.
Births
- March 6 (bapt.) – Isaac Ware, English architect (died 1766)
- August 26 (bapt.) – John Wood, the Elder, English architect working in Bath (died 1754)
Deaths
- Paolo Falconieri, Florentine architect, painter and mathematician (born 1638)
References
- "Sir John Vanbrugh". National Trust. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- Fulco, Daniel (2016). Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire: Visual Culture and Princely Power in the Age of Enlightenment. BRILL. p. 312. ISBN 9789004308053.
- "Cound Hall". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- "About Us". Burgh House. Archived from the original on 7 December 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- Hickman, Douglas (1970). Birmingham. London: Studio Vista. p. 13.
- "Hirado Castle". www.japanvisitor.com. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- "Ludwigsburg - Germany". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- "Ware, Isaac (bap. 1704, d. 1766), architect". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28728. Retrieved 2 April 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- "John Wood the Elder – English architect". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- Wallis, John; Beeley, Philip; Scriba, Christoph J. (2012). Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703): Volume III (October 1668-1671). OUP Oxford. p. 404. ISBN 9780198569473.
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