1480s in architecture

Buildings

• 1480 – Ancienne Douane (Colmar) 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 - The Changgyeonggung of Korea is completed.
• 1484 - Palazzo Medici in Florence, begun by Michelozzo c.1444/45, is completed.
• 1487 - Italian architects begin to build the Moscow Kremlin.

Tōgu-dō (1486) at Ginkaku-ji, Kyoto

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

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)