1480s in architecture

Events

• 1482 – Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Trattato di architettura, ingegneria e arte militare ("Treatise of Architecture, Engineering and Military Art") is completed after this date
• 1485 – Leon Battista Alberti, De Re Aedificatoria (written 1443–52) becomes the first printed work on architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1480 – Ancienne Douane (Colmar) completed.
• c.1480
• , Hales Hall, Loddon, Norfolk, England, completed.
• Bayt al-Razzaz palace, Cairo, Egypt, original building completed.
• 1481 – Palazzo Loredan on the Grand Canal (Venice), designed by Mauro Codussi, is begun (completed 1509).
• 1482–1489 – Ginkaku-ji ("Temple of the Silver Pavilion") in Kyoto, Japan, is constructed.
• 1483–1488 – Church of Mariä Krönung (Lautenbach) consecrated and completed.
• 1483 – The Changgyeonggung of Korea is completed.
• 1484–1489 – Koyunbaba Bridge in Anatolia is constructed.
• 1484 – Palazzo Medici in Florence, begun by Michelozzo c.1444/45, is completed.
• 1486 – Rebuilding at Metz Cathedral begins.
• 1487 – Italian architects begin to build the Moscow Kremlin.
• 1489 – Église Saint-Maurice, Soultz-Haut-Rhin completed (started in 1270)

Births

• 1483: April 6 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (died 1520)
• 1484: April 12 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (died 1546)
• 1486: July 2 – Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (died 1570)
• 1489: April 15 – Mimar Sinan, Ottoman Turkish architect (died 1588)

Deaths

• c. 1481 – Guiniforte Solari, Milanese sculptor, architect and engineer (born c. 1429)

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