1450s in architecture

Events

• 1452 – Leon Battista Alberti completes writing ''De Re Aedificatoria''

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1450
• * Reconstruction of Sforza Castle in Milan as a palace begun
• * Tomb of Ahi Evren in Kırşehir, Anatolia, is begun
• 1451–1457 – Villa Medici in Fiesole, Tuscany, designed by Michelozzo or Leon Battista Alberti, built
• c. 1451
• * Palazzo Rucellai in Florence, probably designed by Leon Battista Alberti and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino, substantially completed
• * Earliest date for start of construction of Jahaz Mahal in the Delhi Sultanate
• 1452 – Hospices de Beaune in France, probably designed by Jacques Wiscrère, opened
• 1456 – Ospedale Maggiore in Milan begun by Filarete.
• 1457 – Edo Castle in Japan first fortified by Ōta Dōkan
• 1458 – Pitti Palace in Florence begun by Bartolommeo Ammanati and perhaps Brunelleschi
• 1459 – Sixty Dome Mosque in Khalifatabad completed
• Approximate date – Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal (Venice) built

Births

• 1450: Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter and architect
• 1452: April 15 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath
• c. 1456: Bramantino, born Bartolomeo Suardi, Milanese painter and architect

Deaths

• 1459: c. October 25 – Khan Jahan Ali, Muslim Sufi saint, local ruler and architectural patron