1470s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1470 – Church and lighthouse tower, Westkapelle, Walcheren, completed
• 1471 – Provand's Lordship, Glasgow, Scotland, built.
• 1472–1474 – The Ordos Wall, first substantial section of the Ming Great Wall of China, built
• 1473 – Work on Cologne Cathedral west front and towers suspended until 19th century
• 1474 – Nave vault of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, completed
• 1475–1479 – Dormition Cathedral, Moscow, designed by Aristotele Fioravanti, built
• 1479 – Munich Frauenkirche completed by Jörg von Halsbach

Births

• 1475: March 6 – Michelangelo, born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni in Caprese, Tuscany, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer
• 1475: September 6 – Sebastiano Serlio born in Bologna, Italian Mannerist architect and theoretician working in France

Deaths

• 1472: April 25 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian architect and polymath
• 1472? – Michelozzo, Florentine architect and sculptor