The year 1718 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

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 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (14 November 1668 – 16 November 1745) was an Austrian baroque architect and military engineer who designed stately buildings and churches and whose work had a profound influence on the architecture of the Habsburg E ...

. * In London, St Alfege Church, Greenwich, rebuilt by Nicholas Hawksmoor, is consecrated, the first completed work of the

Commission for Building Fifty New Churches The Commission for Building Fifty New Churches (in London and the surroundings) was an organisation set up by Act of Parliament in England in 1711, the New Churches in London and Westminster Act 1710, with the purpose of building fifty new church ...

. * The church of

Santa Cristina, Turin Santa Cristina is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located in Turin, region of Piedmont, Italy. It mirrors the adjacent church of San Carlo and faces the Piazza San Carlo. The arrangement recalls the twin churches (chiese gemelle) of Santa ...

, is completed under guidance of Filippo Juvarra. * Temple in Shotover Park, Oxfordshire, an early example of Gothic Revival architecture in England. *

Willmer House Willmer House is a grade I listed building in Farnham, Surrey, in England. Built in 1718 for a local hop merchant the building later became a school and dental surgery. Since 1961 it has housed the Museum of Farnham. The building was purchased ...

Farnham Farnham ( /ˈfɑːnəm/) is a market town and civil parish in Surrey, England, around southwest of London. It is in the Borough of Waverley, close to the county border with Hampshire. The town is on the north branch of the River Wey, a trib ...

, England, a noted example of brick building. Schloss Weissenstein 1 ReiKi

Births

* February – John Vardy, English neo-Palladian architect (died

1765 Events January–March * January 23 – Prince Joseph of Austria marries Princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria in Vienna. * January 29 – One week before his death, Mir Jafar, who had been enthroned as the Nawab of Bengal and ru ...

) * March 21 –

Friedrich August Krubsacius Friedrich August Krubsacius (21 March 1718 - 28 November 1789) was a German architect, teacher, and architectural theoretician. He was born at Dresden. In 1755 he was made court architect to the Electorate of Saxony, in 1764 professor of archit ...

, Dresden architect (died

1789 Events January–March * January – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes the pamphlet ''What Is the Third Estate?'' ('), influential on the French Revolution. * January 7 – The 1788-89 United States presidential election a ...

) * May 14 –

Mario Gioffredo Mario Gaetano Gioffredo, also called the ''Neapolitan Vitruvius'' (14 May 1718 – 8 March 1785), was an Italian architect, engineer, and engraver. Biography He was born and died in Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, ...

, Neapolitan architect, engineer and engraver (died

1785 Events January–March * January 1 – The first issue of the ''Daily Universal Register'', later known as ''The Times'', is published in London. * January 7 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries tr ...

)

Deaths

* September 11 –

Domenico Martinelli Domenico Martinelli (November 30, 1650 – September 11, 1718) was an Italian architect who worked for Carlo Fontana during 1678. He was an evident figure in the shaping of Baroque style in the North Alps. In 2010 a musical tribute called "Projec ...

, Italian baroque architect (born

1650 Events January–March * January 7 – Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, dies after a reign of more than 63 years. The area is now part of the northeastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. * January 18 – Cardinal Jules Ma ...

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