1841 in architecture
# 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 (died 1909)
* July – Richard Carpenter, English architect (died 1893)
* July 10 – John Belcher, English architect (died 1913)
* July 17 – John Oldrid Scott, English architect (died 1913)
* July 13 – Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (died 1918)
* August 12 – Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect (died 1924)
* November 19 – Frigyes Schulek, Hungarian architect (died 1919)

## Deaths

* October 9 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect (born 1781)
* December 30 – John Foulston, English architect working in Plymouth (born 1772)
