1620s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1619 – Børsen in Copenhagen, Denmark designed by Lorentz and Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger, is begun
• 1620
• * Work on Santa Maria delle Grazie Tower in Xgħajra, Malta begins.
• * Reconstruction of Frederiksborg Palace, Denmark, is completed by Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger following the death of his brother Lorentz.
• * Skaill House on Orkney is built.
• 1616–1621 – Church of St-Gervais-et-St-Protais, Paris, designed by Salomon de Brosse, is built.
• 1621 – Prince's Lodging at Newmarket, Suffolk, England, designed by Inigo Jones, completed.
• 1622–1628 – The Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah in Agra, India, is built.
• 1622 – The Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, is opened with a performance of Ben Jonson's The Masque of Augurs designed by the building's architect, Inigo Jones.
• 1623 – New :fr:Temple de Charenton-le-Pont|Temple de Charenton-le-Pont, France, designed by Salomon de Brosse and Jean Thiriot, is built.
• 1624 – St John's College Old Library, Cambridge, building is completed.
• 1624–1626 – Façade of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, designed by Giovanni Battista Soria, is built.
• 1623–1627 – Queen's Chapel at St James's Palace in London, designed by Inigo Jones, is built.
• 1615–1625 – Luxembourg Palace, Paris, designed by Salomon de Brosse, is built.
• c. 1625/26 – Coymans house, Keizersgracht, Amsterdam, designed by Jacob van Campen.
• 1626 – Rebuilding of Beopjusa Palsangjeon in Korea is completed.
• 1627
• * Palazzo Barberini in Rome begun by Carlo Maderno and Francesco Borromini.
• * Muchalls Castle in Scotland, reconstruction completed by Thomas Burnett of Leys.
• 1628
• * Salzburg Cathedral in Austria, designed by Santino Solari, consecrated.
• * George Heriot's Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1629 – Simtokha Dzong in Bhutan.

  Births

• 1620: November 2 – Roger Pratt, English gentleman architect
• 1621 – Hugh May, English architect

  Deaths

• 1620 – Bontadino de Bontadini, Bolognese-born hydraulic engineer, architect, mathematician and woodcarver, murdered
• 1626: December 9 – Salomon de Brosse, French architect
• 1627: July 17 – Lieven de Key, Dutch architect
• 1629: January 30 – Carlo Maderno, Ticinese-born architect