1834 in architecture

The year 1834 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

 * October 16 – Burning of Parliament: Much of the Palace of Westminster in London is destroyed by fire. Augustus Pugin is among the witnesses.
 * The Institute of British Architects in London, predecessor of the Royal Institute of British Architects, is formed.
 * First published scholarly description and drawings of a stave church, painter Johannes Flintoe's essay on Heddal Stave Church in Samlinger til det Norske Folks Sprog og Historie (Christiania).

Buildings opened

 * August 30 – The Alexander Column, Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed by Auguste de Montferrand, is unveiled.
 * October 7 – Birmingham Town Hall in Birmingham, England, designed by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, is opened for the start of the Music Festival, already delayed by a year because of lack of funds.

Buildings completed

 * De Zwaluw, Hoogeveen, smock mill, Netherlands, built for Lucas Quirinus Robaard and Karsjen Meeuwes Steenbergen.
 * Gurgi Mosque, Tripoli, Libya.
 * Final reconstruction of the Presidential Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania, by Vasily Stasov.
 * Reconstruction of the Narva Triumphal Arch in Saint Petersburg in stone by Vasily Stasov.

Awards

 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul-Eugène Lequeux.

Births

 * March 11 – E. W. Pugin, English ecclesiastical architect (d. 1875)
 * March 24 – William Morris, English artist, writer and conservationist (d. 1896)
 * April 5 – Robert Rowand Anderson, Scottish architect (d. 1921)
 * April 7 – Alfred B. Mullett, English-born American architect (d. 1890)
 * May 23 – Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis, Latvian architect (d. 1891)
 * August 2 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
 * Date unknown – Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (d. 1894)

Deaths

 * September 2 – Thomas Telford, Scottish-born stonemason, architect and civil engineer (b. 1757)
 * September 5 – Thomas Lee, English architect (b. 1794)