1841 in architecture

Buildings , 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) • 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==