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1732 In Architecture
The year 1732 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * August – York Assembly Rooms in England, designed by Lord Burlington, are opened. The Mansion House, York, is also completed this year. * October 2 – Goodman's Fields Theatre, London, designed by Edward Shepherd, is opened. * December 7 – Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, designed by Edward Shepherd, is opened. * Trinity College Library in Dublin, designed by Thomas Burgh, is completed. * Nicola Salvi begins work on the new Trevi Fountain in Rome. * Work on Palais Rohan in Strasbourg, designed by Robert de Cotte, is started Awards * Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Laurent Legeay. Births * April 22 – John Johnson, English architect (died 1814) * July 21 – James Adam, Scottish-born architect (died 1794) * December 15 – Carl Gotthard Langhans, Prussian architect (died 1808) Deaths * Giacomo Amato, Sicilian architect (born 1643) References Architecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strasbourg
Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the European Parliament. Located at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace, it is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin department. In 2019, the city proper had 287,228 inhabitants and both the Eurométropole de Strasbourg (Greater Strasbourg) and the Arrondissement of Strasbourg had 505,272 inhabitants. Strasbourg's metropolitan area had a population of 846,450 in 2018, making it the eighth-largest metro area in France and home to 14% of the Grand Est region's inhabitants. The transnational Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau had a population of 958,421 inhabitants. Strasbourg is one of the ''de facto'' four main capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels, Luxembourg and Frankfurt), as it is the seat of several European insti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1732 Works
Year 173 ( CLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Pompeianus (or, less frequently, year 926 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 173 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Gnaeus Claudius Severus and Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus become Roman Consuls. * Given control of the Eastern Empire, Avidius Cassius, the governor of Syria, crushes an insurrection of shepherds known as the Boukoloi. Births * Maximinus Thrax ("the Thracian"), Roman emperor (d. 238) * Mi Heng, Chinese writer and musician (d. 198) Deaths * Donatus of Muenstereifel, Roman soldier and martyr (b. AD 140 Year 140 ( CXL) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1643 In Architecture
__TOC__ Buildings and structures Buildings * The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, is under construction, probably by Ustad Ahmad Lahori, to a commission by Shah Jahan. The mosque and ''jawab'' in the complex are completed in 1643. * 1640 ** Børsen in Copenhagen, designed by Lorentz and Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger and begun in 1619, is completed. ** 59–60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (later known as Lindsey House), probably designed by Inigo Jones and begun about 1638, is completed. '': volume 3: St Giles-in-the-Fields, pt I: Lincoln's Inn Fields'' (1912), pp. 96–103. Retrieved 2015-03-17. ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1808 In Architecture
The year 1808 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings completed * Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris, France. *Fort Edgecomb, an octagonal, wooden, two-story blockhouse, built in Lincoln County, Maine, USA, to protect Wiscasset's seaport (settled in 1663 on the tidal waters of the Sheepscot River). *Fountain in front of Mission Santa Barbara, California, USA. *Hotel Polski, Warsaw, Poland. *Potseluev Bridge (new cast-iron bridge) across the Moyka River in Saint Petersburg, Russia. *Sheffield Old Town Hall, England, UK. *Leeds Library, England, UK, by Thomas Johnson. *Sparks Shot Tower in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. * Teatro della Concordia, designed by Luigi Canonica, in Cremona, Italy. *Reconstruction of palace at Natolin, Poland, by Chrystian Piotr Aigner for Stanisław Kostka Potocki. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Achille-François-René Leclère. Births *January 22 – James Fergusson, Scottish wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Gotthard Langhans
Carl Gotthard Langhans (15 December 1732 – 1 October 1808) was a Prussian master builder and royal architect. His churches, palaces, grand houses, interiors, city gates and theatres in Silesia (now Poland), Berlin, Potsdam and elsewhere belong to the earliest examples of Neoclassical architecture in Germany. His best-known work is the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, national symbol of today’s Germany and German reunification in 1989/90. Life Langhans was born in Landeshut, Silesia (now Kamienna Góra in Poland). He was not educated as an architect. He studied law from 1753 to 1757 in Halle, and then mathematics and languages, and engaged himself autodidactically with architecture, at which he concentrated primarily on the antique texts of the Roman architecture theorist Vitruvius (and the new version by the classics enthusiast Johann Joachim Winckelmann whose works prompted the Greek Revival). His draft for "Zum Schifflein Christi" (1764), the Protestant Church in Groà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1794 In Architecture
The year 1794 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * ''date unknown'' – French confectioner Louis Jules Benois, forefather of the Benois family of artists, musicians, and architects, arrives in Russia following the French Revolution. * Construction of houses on the edge of Blackheath, London, designed by Michael Searles, begins: The Paragon (a Crescent (architecture), crescent), South Row and Montpelier Row; they will be completed in 1805 in architecture, 1805. * The interior of St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig in Electorate of Saxony, Saxony is remodeled by Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe in the Neoclassicism, neoclassical style. Buildings and structures Buildings * Needle of Rijswijk, monument at Forest of Rijswijk, Netherlands. * Fru Haugans Hotel, Mosjøen, Norway. * The second Royal Presidio Chapel at the Presidio of Monterey in Spain, Spanish Alta California. The chapel, now known as the Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo (Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands. Scotland is divided into 32 administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limited self-governing power, covering matters such as education, social services and roads and transportation, is devolved from the Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Adam (architect)
James Adam (21 July 1732 – 20 October 1794) was a Scottish architect and furniture designer, but was often overshadowed by his older brother and business partner, Robert Adam. They were sons of architect William Adam. Life and career Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife in 1732 as the third son of the architect William Adam. In 1755 Adam worked on Gunsgreen House in the Berwickshire town of Eyemouth. In 1758, Adam, along with his brother Robert, started his business in London (living in Lower Grosvenor Street), focusing on designing complete schemes for the decoration and furnishing of houses. Palladian design was popular, but Robert had evolved a new, more flexible signature style incorporating elements of classic Roman design alongside influences from Greek, Byzantine and Baroque styles, often termed as Adam Style in conventional architecture texts. The Adam brothers' success can also be attributed to a desire to design everything down to the smallest detail, ensuring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1814 In Architecture
The year 1814 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings completed * Craigellachie Bridge, Scotland, designed by Thomas Telford, is completed. * Pont d'Iéna over the Seine in Paris, commissioned by Napoleon I of France in 1807, is completed. * Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Chiclana de la Frontera), Spain, designed in 1776 by Torcuato Cayón, is completed. * St George's Church, Everton, England, designed by ironfounder John Cragg with Thomas Rickman, is consecrated. * St Andrew's and St George's West Church#St George's Church, St George's Church, Charlotte Square, New Town, Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Robert Reid (architect), Robert Reid, is completed. * Chapel Royal, Dublin, designed by Francis Johnston (architect), Francis Johnston, is completed. * East Cowes Castle#Lough Cooter Castle, Lough Cooter Castle, Gort, Ireland, designed by John Nash (architect), John Nash, is completed. * Middletown Alms House in Connecticut is completed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Johnson (architect, Born 1732)
John Johnson (22 April 1732 – 17 August 1814) was an English architect and surveyor to the county of Essex. He is best known for designing the Shire Hall, Chelmsford. Life Johnson was born in Leicester. He moved to London before his thirtieth birthday and in the late 1760s was engaged by William Berners in speculative building of Berners' estate in Marylebone. For most of the rest of his life he lived in one of the houses that he had built in Berners Street. In 1782 he succeeded William Hillyer as Surveyor to the County of Essex, a position that he held for thirty years, retiring at the age of 80. In 1785 he became a partner with Sir Herbert Mackworth and others in Dorsett and Co, a bank in Bond Street, but Mackworth left before 1792, the bank failed in 1797 and was wound up in 1803. After this, Johnson moved from Berners Street to Camden Town, and on his retirement in 1812 returned to Leicester, where he died. He was buried in St Martin's Church (now Leicester Cathed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix De Rome
The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them to stay in Rome for three to five years at the expense of the state. The prize was extended to architecture in 1720, music in 1803 and engraving in 1804. The prestigious award was abolished in 1968 by André Malraux, then Minister of Culture, following the May 68 riots that called for cultural change. History The Prix de Rome was initially created for painters and sculptors in 1663 in France, during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest. To succeed, a student had to create a sketch on an assigned topic while isolated in a closed booth with no reference material to draw on. The prize, organised by the Académie Royale de Peinture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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