1718 in architecture
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The year 1718 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- In Pascagoula, Mississippi, the Old Spanish Fort is built.
- In Bengal, the mazar of Saint Shah Sultan Mahi Swar Balkhi is built, a single domed mosque.
- In Bavaria, Schloss Weißenstein is completed to the designs of Johann Dientzenhofer and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt.
- In London, St Alfege Church, Greenwich, rebuilt by Nicholas Hawksmoor, is consecrated, the first completed work of the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches.
Births
- February - John Vardy, English neo-Palladian architect (died 1765)
- March 21 - Friedrich August Krubsacius, Dresden architect (died 1789)
- May 14 - Mario Gioffredo, Neapolitan architect, engineer and engraver (died 1785)
Deaths
- September 11 - Domenico Martinelli, Italian baroque architect (born 1650)