1841 in architecture
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The year 1841 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- April 13 â Original Semperoper in Dresden, designed by Gottfried Semper, opened.
- September 2 â Leeds Parish Church reconsecrated after reconstruction.[1]
- 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 â Auguste Choisy, French architect (died 1909)
- July â Richard Carpenter, English architect (died 1893)
- July 10 â John Belcher, English architect (died 1913)
- July 17 â John Oldrid Scott, English architect (died 1913)
- July 13 â Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (died 1918)
- August 12 â Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect (died 1924)
- November 19 â Frigyes Schulek, Hungarian architect (died 1919)
Deaths
- October 9 â Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect (born 1781)
- December 30 â John Foulston, English architect working in Plymouth (born 1772)