1853 in architecture

• June 30 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as préfect of the Seine (department) to begin the re-planning of Paris. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings • Fastnet Rock Lighthouse is completed at the most southerly point of Ireland. • The New York Crystal Palace is constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City. • The New York Cotton Exchange building is completed in New York City. • Rhode Island Tool Company building is completed in Providence, Rhode Island. • Charlbury railway station in Oxfordshire, England, designed by I. K. Brunel, is opened. ==Awards==

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Robert Smirke. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Arthur-Stanislas Diet. ==Births==

• February 26 – Antonio Rivas Mercado, Mexican architect, engineer and restorer (died 1927) • June 21 – Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, Danish architect, designer, painter and architectural theorist (died 1930) • August 28 (August 16 O.S.) – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian structural engineer (died 1939) • September 11 – Stanford White, American architect (died 1906) ==Deaths==

• December 12 – William Nichols, English-born American Neoclassical architect (born 1780) ==References==