title: 1703 in architecture
text: # 1703 in architecture
  
  The year 1703 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
  
  ## Events
  
  * February 3 – Severe earthquake in L'Aquila damages many buildings.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings completed
  
  * May – Cabin of Peter the Great, built in three days by soldiers of the Semyonovsky Regiment.
  * Cambrai Cathedral, France
  * La Merced Cloister designed and constructed as part of a monastery in Mexico City by Juan de Herrera
  * Stavenhagenhaus, Hamburg, Germany (dated from the arms above the main entrance door)
  * Approximate date – Church of St. Anne, Kraków, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed
  
  ## Births
  
  * February – Robert Morris, English architect and writer on architecture (died 1754)
  * October 13 – Andrea Belli, Maltese architect and businessman (died 1772)
  * December 11 – Giovanni Antonio Medrano, Italian architect (died 1760)
  * Approximate date – Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet, English nobleman and amateur architect (d. 1777)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 16 – Lorenzo Gafà, Maltese Baroque architect and sculptor (born 1639)
  * March 3 – Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (born 1635)
  * December 27 – Thomas Cartwright, English architect (born c.1635)
  