1838 in architecture

Buildings opened • April 8 – The British National Gallery first opens to the public in the building purpose-designed for it by William Wilkins in Trafalgar Square, London. , Lucknow Buildings completed • Palazzo Gavazzi, Milan, Italy, designed by Luigi Clerichetti. • Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Canada, built by Scottish architect Thomas McKay. • Walton Hall, Cheshire, England, designed for Sir Gilbert Greenall, 1st Baronet, possibly by Edmund Sharpe. • Chota Imambara, Lucknow. ==Awards==

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Toussaint Uchard. ==Births==

• January 23 – John James Clark, Australian architect (died 1915) • April 13 – J. D. Sedding, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1891) • May 16 – Thomas Forrester, New Zealand plasterer, draughtsman, architect and engineer (died 1907) • September 18 – Thomas Drew, Irish ecclesiastical architect (died 1910) • September 29 – Henry Hobson Richardson, American city architect (died 1886) ==Deaths==

• September 5 – Charles Percier, French Neoclassical architect, interior decorator and designer (born 1764) • October 16 – William Vitruvius Morrison, Irish architect, son and collaborator of Sir Richard Morrison (born 1794) ==References==