title: 1550s in architecture
text: # 1550s in architecture
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * 1550–1554 – Church of Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia, Rome, designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, constructed, the first church of the Italian Renaissance to have an elliptical dome.
  * 1550–1557 – Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, designed by Mimar Sinan, constructed.
  * 1552–1554 – Design and construction of Villa Cornaro in the Veneto by Palladio.
  * 1552 – Work begins on Fort Saint Elmo on Malta.
  * 1554
     * Work begins on Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.
     * Work begins on Sulaymaniyya Takiyya (western building) in Damascus.
  * c. 1555 – Design and construction of monastery of Santiago Apóstol and its basilica church in Cuilapan de Guerrero, Oaxaca, Mexico, by Antonio de Barbosa, begins.
  * 1558 – Sforza Chapel in Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, designed by Michelangelo.
  * 1559
     * Work begins on the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, designed by Vignola.
     * Sulaymaniyya Takiyya (western building) in Damascus is completed.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 1550: April 18 – Alessandro Pieroni, Italian mannerist painter and architect (died 1607)
  * c.1550 – Vittorio Cassar, Maltese architect (died c.1607)
  * 1556 – Carlo Maderno, Ticinese-born baroque architect (died 1629)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 1554 – Sebastiano Serlio (born 1475)
  