1786 in architecture
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The year 1786 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings completed
- Casa de Esteban de Luca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1]
- Golghar, Patna, India, built by Captain John Garstin.[2][3]
- Henley Bridge, designed by William Hayward of Shrewsbury,[4] who died before construction was completed.
- Schloss Bellevue in Berlin, Germany, designed by Michael Philipp Boumann.[5]
- St. Catherine's Cathedral, Kherson, Ukraine, built by General Ivan Gannibal.[6]
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Charles Percier.
Births
- January 23 â Auguste de Montferrand, French Neoclassical architect who worked primarily in Russia (died 1858)
- May 7 â John Watts, Irish military architect (died 1873)
Deaths
- February 28 â John Gwynn, English architect and civil engineer (born 1713)
- October 20 â Humphrey Sturt, British architect (born c.1725)