1738 in architecture

<h2 id="events">Events</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/William_Kent/xuaBlotG">William Kent</a> is appointed to remodel <a href="/facts/Rousham_House/KFc2Bcc1">Rousham House</a> and gardens in Oxfordshire, England, "a landmark in the history of the Romantic movement."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul>
<h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2>
<p class="note">See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1738</p>
<h3>Buildings</h3>

<ul><li><a href="/facts/Ch%25C3%25A2teau_de_Bagnolet%2c_Paris/jYDBgkJH">Château de Bagnolet, Paris</a>.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/San_Simeone_Piccolo/QjAot4fy">San Simeone Piccolo</a> on the <a href="/facts/Grand_Canal_(Venice)/qTbWYb23">Grand Canal (Venice)</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Giovanni_Antonio_Scalfarotto/MuSDbHBr">Giovanni Antonio Scalfarotto</a>, completed.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Iglesia_de_Nuestra_Se%25C3%25B1ora_de_la_Palma/AKoGcbbx">Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Palma</a>, <a href="/facts/Algeciras/wnRuKJkP">Algeciras</a>, Spain, designed by Alonso Barranco and completed by Isidro Casaus.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Marx_Memorial_Library/ECNS7uj7">Welsh Charity School</a>, <a href="/facts/Clerkenwell/sfbeJ15u">Clerkenwell</a>, London, designed by James Steer.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Residenz_Ansbach/6fBt79DX">Residenz Ansbach</a> reconstruction completed by Leopold Retti.</li></ul>
<h2 id="publications">Publications</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Giovanni_Niccol%25C3%25B2_Servandoni/Dhp7oJY3">Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni</a> – <i>Description abregée de l'eglise Saint Pierre de Rome</i> (Paris)</li></ul>
<h2 id="births">Births</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Matvey_Kazakov/HFVs7k8z">Matvey Kazakov</a>, Russian neoclassical architect (died <a href="/facts/1812_in_architecture/NoaCA7Qz">1812</a>)</li>
<li>Approximate date – <a href="/facts/John_Palmer_(Bath_architect)/QLLeIPmj">John Palmer of Bath</a>, English architect (died <a href="/facts/1817_in_architecture/o7MlQv7z">1817</a>)</li></ul>
<h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2>
<ul><li>January 20 – <a href="/facts/Francesco_Galli_Bibiena/hPuoxH5K">Francesco Galli Bibiena</a>, Italian architect, designer and painter (born <a href="/facts/1659_in_architecture/Q7yAByY6">1659</a>)</li>
<li>March 16 – <a href="/facts/George_B%25C3%25A4hr/gVelpyGj">George Bähr</a>, German architect; designer of <a href="/facts/Protestant/NXja4K3g">Protestant</a> <a href="/facts/Church_(building)/gtw3YSsd">churches</a> (born <a href="/facts/1666_in_architecture/2rPhwgqh">1666</a>)</li>
<li>Date unknown – <a href="/facts/Francis_Smith_of_Warwick/LIVlQ2JL">Francis Smith of Warwick</a>, English architect (born <a href="/facts/1670s_in_architecture/J2xAF5Hr">1672</a>)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Sherwood, Jennifer (1974). "Rousham Park". In Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (eds.). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 740–6. ISBN 0-14-071045-0. <a href="0-14-071045-0" target="_blank">0-14-071045-0</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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