1722 in architecture

The year 1722 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Blenheim Palace (begun 1705) in Woodstock, England, designed by John Vanbrugh, is completed.{{cite web|title=Blenheim Palace|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/425|website=whc.unesco.org|access-date=16 January 2018|language=en}}
Wanstead House, near London, England, designed by Colen Campbell, is completed.{{cite web|title=The history of Wanstead House|url=http://www.essexlifemag.co.uk/home/the-history-of-wanstead-house-1-4757147|website=Essex Life|access-date=16 January 2018|language=en}}
Castletown House in County Kildare, Ireland, designed by Alessandro Galilei, is completed.{{cite book|last1=James-Chakraborty|first1=Kathleen|title=Architecture since 1400|date=2014|publisher=U of Minnesota Press|isbn=9781452941721|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o1uQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT231|language=en}}
Kantajew Temple in Bengal is completed.{{cite book|last1=Ghosh|first1=Pika|title=Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-century Bengal|date=2005|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0253344875|page=46|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiTSsaOd0xkC&pg=PA46|language=en}}

Grand Prix de Rome: Jean-Michel Chevotet.{{cite book|last1=MEYRIGNAC|first1=Philippe|title=Le Papillon Vert|date=2014|publisher=Éditions Hélène Jacob|isbn=9782370111791|page=73|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vu6EBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT73|language=fr}}

March 17 – William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, English peer and amateur architect (died 1791){{cite web|title=William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford – Person – National Portrait Gallery|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp57994|website=www.npg.org.uk|access-date=16 January 2018|language=en}}
August – James Essex, English builder and architect working in Cambridge (died 1784){{cite ODNB|title=Essex, James (bap. 1722, d. 1784), architect and antiquary|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-8887|accessdate=16 January 2018|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/8887|year=2004|author=Cocke, T. H.}}
Robert Smith, Scottish architect working in America (died 1777){{cite book|title=Robert Smith : architect, builder, patriot, 1722–1777|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35624802?selectedversion=NBD21653777|website=National Library of Australia|access-date=7 July 2017|isbn = 9780916530174|last1 = Peterson|first1 = Charles Emil|last2 = Smith|first2 = Robert|last3 = Greiff|first3 = Constance M.|last4 = Thompson|first4 = Maria M.|year = 2000| publisher=Athenaeum of Philadelphia }}

June 20 – Christoph Dientzenhofer, Bavarian baroque architect working in Bohemia (born 1655){{cite web|title=Christoph Dientzenhofer – German architect|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christoph-Dientzenhofer|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=16 January 2018|language=en}}
William Winde, English gentleman architect (born c.1640){{cite web|title=William Winde |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803124127331|website=Oxford Index|access-date=16 January 2018}}