The year 1773 in architecture involved some significant events.

Contents

• Events
• Buildings and structures
• Buildings completed
• Births
• Deaths
• References

Events

• July 30 – Following the discovery of the iron waters in the civil parish of Fraião, archbishop D. Gaspar de Bragança orders the municipal council to proceed with the use of the waters. ^[1] The municipal government contracts master mason Paulo Vidal (a resident of Adaúfe) to construct a fountain for 80$000 réis."for the people with better hygiene, comfort and seclusion to serve from the said water".
• Caspar Frederik Harsdorff is commissioned to redesign the Hercules Pavilion at Rosenborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark. His design with niches and statues gives the building its current name. ^[2]
• Domenico Merlini becomes the Royal Architect in Poland.

Buildings and structures

Births

• August 30 – Mihály Pollack, Hungarian Neoclassical architect (died 1855)

Deaths

• March 1 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian engineer and architect (born 1700)

References