1832 in architecture

The year 1832 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings opened

 * January – Theatre Royal, Wexford, Ireland (demolished 2006)

Buildings completed

 * Church of Our Saviour, Qaqortoq, Greenland.
 * Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, England, designed by Samuel Worth and Benjamin Broomhead Taylor.
 * Drapers' Hall, Coventry, England, designed by Thomas Rickman.
 * Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by William Henry Playfair.
 * Replacement Old City Gaol, Bristol, England, designed by Richard Shackleton Pope.
 * Osgoode Hall, Toronto for The Law Society of Upper Canada, designed by John Ewart and W. W. Baldwin.
 * Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Ireland, designed by Albert E. Murray.
 * Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar.
 * Hill's Academy, Essex, Connecticut.
 * Maderup Mølle, Funen, Denmark (now in The Funen Village)
 * Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Paris.
 * The Mount, Sheffield, England (residential terrace), designed by William Flockton.
 * Staines Bridge (across the River Thames in England), designed by George Rennie.
 * Marlow Bridge (suspension, across the River Thames in England), designed by William Tierney Clark.
 * Bridge Real Ferdinando sul Garigliano (suspension, in the Kingdom of Naples), designed by Luigi Giura.
 * George IV Bridge in Edinburgh, designed by Thomas Hamilton.
 * Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, London, completed after the death in July of its designer John Shaw, Sr. by his son, John Shaw, Jr.
 * Stirling New Bridge in Scotland, designed by Robert Stevenson, completed.

Awards

 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Arnoud Léveil.

Births

 * March 23 – Charles Henry Driver, English architect (died 1900)
 * March 29 – William Swinden Barber, English architect (died 1908)
 * September 25 – William Le Baron Jenney, American architect (died 1907)
 * October 10 – Henry Hunter, English-born architect working in Tasmania (died 1892)
 * December 15 – Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer (died 1923)
 * December 22 – Henry Augustus Sims, American architect working in Philadelphia (died 1875)
 * date unknown – Frederick Thomas Pilkington, English-born architect working in Scotland (died 1898)

Deaths

 * June 4 – William Heste, Russian architect, civil engineer and town planner of Scottish descent
 * July 30 – John Shaw, Sr., English architect (born 1776)
 * September 22 – William Fowler, English architect and engraver (born 1761)
 * November 19 – John Paterson, Scottish architect
 * December 19 – Augustus Charles Pugin, French-born English architectural draughtsman (born 1762)