1788 in architecture

Buildings on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, built and restored as a cultural centre • Felix Meritis in Amsterdam (Netherlands), designed by Jacob Otten Husly, is opened. • De Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam, designed by Abraham van der Hart, is completed. • Théâtre Graslin in Nantes (France), designed by Mathurin Crucy, is opened. • Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna is established. • Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England, is built. • Sofia Albertina Church in Scania (Sweden), designed by Carl Hårleman before his death in 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 houses in England at Camden Crescent, Bath and 32–44, Caledonia Place, Clifton, Bristol, designed by John Eveleigh, are built. • Second Walton Bridge over the River Thames in England, designed by James Paine, is opened. ==Births==

• February 25 – Thomas Cubitt, English builder (died 1855) • April 27 – Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect (died 1863) • November – William Strickland, American architect (died 1854) ==Deaths==

• February 2 – James "Athenian" Stuart, English neoclassical architect (born 1733) • September 27 – Sir Robert Taylor, English stonemason, sculptor and architect (born 1714) == References ==