1822 in architecture

The year 1822 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings completed

 * Piazza del Popolo, Rome, by Giuseppe Valadier, completed.
 * Saint David's Building, the original home of St David's College, Lampeter, Wales, by Charles Cockerell.
 * Reconstruction and new prison buildings at Chester Castle, England, by Thomas Harrison.
 * St Pancras New Church, London, by William and Henry William Inwood.
 * Kalupur Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, British Raj.
 * Assembly Rooms, Aberdeen, Scotland, by Archibald Simpson.
 * Second Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, United States, by William Strickland.
 * Main building of Government Palace (Finland) in Helsinki Senate Square, by Carl Ludvig Engel.
 * Façade of Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, by Robert Reid.
 * Reconstruction of Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England by John Nash.
 * Yelagin Palace, Saint Petersburg, by Carlo Rossi.
 * Cartland Bridge, Scotland, by Thomas Telford.
 * Pont de pierre (Bordeaux), by Jean-Baptiste Billaudel and Claude Deschamps.
 * Aban Palace, Kumasi, a project of Asantehene Osei Bonsu.

Awards

 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Émile Gilbert.

Births

 * January 9 – Carol Benesch, Silesian and Romanian architect (died 1896)
 * April 26 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (died 1903)
 * September 12 – Philip Charles Hardwick, English architect (died 1892)
 * December 6 – David Stirling, Scottish-born Dominion architect for federal works in Nova Scotia (died 1887)
 * December – Frank Wills, English-born architect working in North America (died 1857)

Deaths

 * John Bowden, Irish ecclesiastical architect
 * Luigi Rusca, Swiss architect working in Russia (born 1762)