1530s in architecture

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Buildings and structures

1531 – Kõpu Lighthouse on Hiiumaa begins operation.
1532–1536
- Rood screen in King's College Chapel, Cambridge in England is erected.^[1]
- 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 (the "White Column") at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, is built.
- Church of the Royal Monastery of Brou in France (begun 1506) 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 (Ciudad de los Reyes), 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.

1537 – Sebastiano Serlio publishes the first volume of his architectural treatise, Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva, in Venice, putting the classical orders into canonical form.

1530 – Juan de Herrera, Spanish architect (died 1593)
c. 1531 – Bernardo Buontalenti, Florentine architect, stage designer, military engineer and artist (died 1608)
1533 – Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Italian architect and sculptor (died 1609)
1535
- Early? - Robert Smythson, English architect (died 1614)
- June 18 – Jakub Krčín, Czech architect (died 1604)
c. 1536 – Ottaviano Nonni, Bolognese architect, sculptor and painter working in Rome (died 1606)
1538 – Pablo de Céspedes, Spanish painter, poet and architect (died 1608)

1530: Approximate date – Bramantino, Milanese painter and architect (born c.1456)
1532 – Andrea Riccio, Italian sculptor and architect (born c.1470)
1534: December 27 – Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Florentine architect (born 1453)
1537: January 6 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Sienese architect and painter working in Rome (born 1481)
1539 – Marco Palmezzano, Italian painter and architect from Forli (born 1460)