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The year 1853 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- June 30 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as préfect of the Seine (department) to begin the re-planning of Paris.
Buildings and structures
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- Fastnet Rock Lighthouse is completed at the most southerly point of Ireland.
- The New York Crystal Palace is constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
- The New York Cotton Exchange building is completed in New York City.
- Rhode Island Tool Company building is completed in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Charlbury railway station in Oxfordshire, England, designed by I. K. Brunel, is opened.[1]
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Robert Smirke.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Arthur-Stanislas Diet.
Births
- February 26 – Antonio Rivas Mercado, Mexican architect, engineer and restorer (died 1927)[2]
- June 21 – Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, Danish architect, designer, painter and architectural theorist (died 1930)
- August 28 (August 16 O.S.) – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian structural engineer (died 1939)
- September 11 – Stanford White, American architect (died 1906)[3]
Deaths
- December 12 – William Nichols, English-born American Neoclassical architect (born 1780)[4]
References
- ^ Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866247-5.
- ^ Turner, Jane, ed. (1996). The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. ISBN 1-884446-00-0.
- ^ Baker, Paul R. (1989). Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0-02-901781-5.
- ^ Mellown, Robert O.; Peatross, C. Ford (1979). William Nichols, architect. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Art Gallery. pp. 1–6.