1841 in architecture
The year 1841 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- April 13 – Original Semperoper in Dresden, designed by Gottfried Semper, opened.
- September 2 – Leeds Parish Church reconsecrated after reconstruction.
- Pori Old Town Hall in Finland, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, completed.
Publications
- English architect Augustus Pugin publishes an article on English parish churches in the Dublin Review (London Catholic periodical); two lectures on The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture and a revised edition of his 1836 book Contrasts.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Alexis Paccard.
Births
- February 7 – Auguste Choisy, French architect
- July – Richard Carpenter, English architect
- July 10 – John Belcher, English architect
- July 17 – John Oldrid Scott, English architect
- July 13 – Otto Wagner, Austrian architect
- August 12 – Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect
- November 19 – Frigyes Schulek, Hungarian architect
Deaths
- October 9 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect
- December 30 – John Foulston, English architect working in Plymouth