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The year 1841 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

thumb|[[Semperoper, Dresden]]

  • 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)

thumb|upright|[[Karl Friedrich Schinkel]]

  • 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)

References