1808 in architecture

The year 1808 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings completed

 * Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris, France.
 * Fort Edgecomb, an octagonal, wooden, two-story blockhouse, built in Lincoln County, Maine, USA, to protect Wiscasset's seaport (settled in 1663 on the tidal waters of the Sheepscot River).
 * Fountain in front of Mission Santa Barbara, California, USA.
 * Hotel Polski, Warsaw, Poland.
 * Potseluev Bridge (new cast-iron bridge) across the Moyka River in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
 * Sheffield Old Town Hall, England, UK.
 * Leeds Library, England, UK, by Thomas Johnson.
 * Sparks Shot Tower in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
 * Teatro della Concordia, designed by Luigi Canonica, in Cremona, Italy.
 * Reconstruction of palace at Natolin, Poland, by Chrystian Piotr Aigner for Stanisław Kostka Potocki.

Awards

 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Achille-François-René Leclère.

Births

 * January 22 – James Fergusson, Scottish writer on architecture (died 1886)
 * July 25 – Francis Thompson, English architect working chiefly on railways (died 1895)
 * February 13 – Robert Russell, Australian architect and surveyor (died 1900)
 * October 28 – Emilio De Fabris, Florentine architect (died 1883)
 * date unknown – Jean-Baptiste Schacre, French draughtsman and architect (died 1876)

Deaths

 * February 18 – Giuseppe Piermarini, Italian architect (born 1734)
 * March 9 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian-born architect and draughtsman (born 1739)
 * October 1 – Carl Gotthard Langhans, Prussian builder and architect (born 1732)