page_title: 1450s in architecture
section_title: Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: 1450s in architecture / Buildings and structures / Buildings
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Cour de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune
context_page_description: 1452 – Leon Battista Alberti completes writing De Re Aedificatoria
context_section_description: 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
  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 (Shaṭ Gombuj Moshjid) in Khalifatabad (modern-day Bagerhat District of Bangladesh) completed
  Approximate date? - Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal (Venice) built
caption: Hospices de Beaune
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