Editing 1788 in architecture

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The year '''1788 in architecture''' involved some significant events.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1788}}
===Buildings===
[[Image:FelixM.jpg|thumb|right|[[Felix Meritis]] on the [[Keizersgracht]] in Amsterdam, built and restored as a cultural centre]]
* [[Felix Meritis]] in [[Amsterdam]] (Netherlands), designed by [[Jacob Otten Husly]], is opened.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Husly, Jacob Otten {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/husly-jacob-otten |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
* [[De Kleine Komedie]] in Amsterdam, designed by [[Abraham van der Hart]], is completed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography of HART, Abraham van der in the Web Gallery of Art |url=https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/h/hart/biograph.html |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=www.wga.hu}}</ref>
* [[Théâtre Graslin]] in [[Nantes]] (France), designed by [[Mathurin Crucy]], is opened.<ref>{{Citation |last=Rabreau |first=Daniel |title=L'œuvre de Mathurin Crucy à Nantes. : Une "nouvelle Athènes" sur la Loire : migrations et mutations architecturales (1780-1820) |date=2015-02-06 |url=http://books.openedition.org/pur/5539 |work=Graslin : Le temps des Lumières à Nantes |pages=273–289 |editor-last=Orain |editor-first=Arnaud |series=Histoire |place=Rennes |publisher=Presses universitaires de Rennes |isbn=978-2-7535-3132-1 |access-date=2023-02-20 |editor2-last=Le Pichon |editor2-first=Philippe}}</ref>
* [[Theater in der Josefstadt]], [[Vienna]] is established.
* [[Georgian Theatre Royal|Theatre Royal]] in [[Richmond, North Yorkshire]], England, is built.
* [[Sofia Albertina Church]] in [[Scania]] (Sweden), designed by [[Carl Hårleman]] before his death in [[1753 in architecture|1753]], is inaugurated.
* [[Capilla de Ánimas]] in [[Santiago de Compostela]] (Spain) is completed.
* [[St. Spyridon Church, Peroj]] (Croatia) is completed.
* [[St Gregory's Church, Preshome]] (Scotland), designed by Father John Reid, is built.
* Façade of [[St. Anne's Church, Warsaw]], by [[Chrystian Piotr Aigner]], is completed.
* [[Admiralty House, London]], designed by [[Samuel Pepys Cockerell]], is opened.
* [[Palazzo Beneventano del Bosco]] in [[Syracuse, Sicily]], rebuilt by Luciano Alì, is completed.
* [[Arresødal]] on [[Zealand]] (Denmark) is completed.
* [[Eriksholm Castle]] on the [[Isefjord]] (Denmark), designed by [[Caspar Frederik Harsdorff]], is completed.
* [[Sandbjerg]] in [[Jutland]] (Denmark) is built.
* [[Terraced house]]s in England at [[Camden Crescent, Bath]] and 32&ndash;44, [[Caledonia Place, Bristol|Caledonia Place]], [[Clifton, Bristol]], designed by [[John Eveleigh (architect)|John Eveleigh]], are built.
* Second [[Walton Bridge]] over the [[River Thames]] in England, designed by [[James Paine (architect)|James Paine]], is opened.

==Births==
* February 25 – [[Thomas Cubitt]], English builder (died [[1855 in architecture|1855]])
* April 27 – [[Charles Robert Cockerell]], English architect (died [[1863 in architecture|1863]])
* November – [[William Strickland (architect)|William Strickland]], American architect (died [[1854 in architecture|1854]])

==Deaths==
* February 2 – [[James Stuart (1713–1788)|James "Athenian" Stuart]], English neoclassical architect (born [[1733 in architecture|1733]])
* September 27 – Sir [[Robert Taylor (architect)|Robert Taylor]], English stonemason, sculptor and architect (born [[1714 in architecture|1714]])

== References ==
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[[Category:1788 works|Architecture]]
[[Category:Years in architecture]]
[[Category:1780s architecture]]