title: 1821 in architecture
text: # 1821 in architecture
  
  The year 1821 in architecture involved some significant events.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * The Schauspielhaus in Berlin (begun in 1819), designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, is completed.
  * The Palais Leuchtenberg in Munich (begun in 1817), designed by Leo von Klenze, is completed.
  * The Haymarket Theatre in London, designed by John Nash, is completed.
  * Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria, wishing to build a monument to German unity and heroism (and the defeat of Napoleon), commissions Leo von Klenze to build a replica of the Parthenon on a bluff overlooking the Danube River near Regensburg, the Walhalla memorial.
  * The Strasbourg Opera House is completed
  * The Maitland Monument in Corfu, designed by George Whitmore, is built.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Guillaume-Abel Blouet
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 2 – Napoleon LeBrun, American architect (died 1901)
  * February 4 – Major Rohde Hawkins, English school and church architect (died 1884)
  * February 13 – John Turtle Wood, English architect (died 1890)
  * February 20 – Frigyes Feszl, Hungarian architect (died 1884)
  * April – Thomas Brunner, English-born architect working in New Zealand (died 1874)
  * April 11 – James Campbell Walker, Scottish architect (died 1888)
  * July 4 – A. J. Humbert, English architect patronised by the royal family (died 1877)
  * August 1 – James Gowans, Scottish architect (died 1890)
  * November 26 – Charles Webb, English-born architect working in Victoria (Australia) (died 1898)
  * Giuseppe Bonavia, Maltese architect (died 1885)
  * John Elkington Gill, English architect working in Bath (died 1874)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March 1 – John Yenn, English architect (born 1750)
  * October 4 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish-born civil engineer (born 1761)
  