1530s in architecture
Buildings
- 1531 – Kõpu Lighthouse on Hiiumaa begins operation.
- 1532–1536
- * Rood screen in King's College Chapel, Cambridge in England is erected.
- * Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne in Rome, designed by Baldassare Peruzzi, is built.
- c. 1532–1537 – Palazzo Massimo di Pirro in Rome, designed by Giovanni Mangone, is built.
- 1532
- * Church of the Ascension at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, is built.
- * Church of the Royal Monastery of Brou in France is completed.
- 1533 – Work begins on La Fortaleza in Puerto Rico.
- 1534 – Regensburg Cathedral in Germany is completed after 259 years of work.
- c. 1535–1537 – Casa Aliaga in Lima, Peru, is built.
- 1535 – After 258 years of work since 1277, St Alphege Church in Solihull, England, is completed.
- 1537 – Work begins on the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, designed by Jacopo Sansovino.
- 1538 – Work begins on
- * Nonsuch Palace in Surrey, England.
- * The Piazza del Campidoglio on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, designed by Michelangelo. Pope Paul III moves the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius to the Capitoline Hill.
- * Adding bastions to the city walls of Nuremberg, to the design of Maltese military engineer Antonio Falzon.
- 1539 – Work begins on the first batch of Device Forts on the coast of England, including Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight.
Events
Births
- 1530 – Juan de Herrera, Spanish architect
- c. 1531 – Bernardo Buontalenti, Florentine architect, stage designer, military engineer and artist
- 1533 – Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Italian architect and sculptor
- 1535
- * Early? - Robert Smythson, English architect
- * June 18 – Jakub Krčín, Czech architect
- c. 1536 – Ottaviano Nonni, Bolognese architect, sculptor and painter working in Rome
- 1538 – Pablo de Céspedes, Spanish painter, poet and architect
Deaths