1590
- Sinan Pasha Mosque in Damascus, Syria, is completed.
- Court theatre at Sabbioneta (begun 1588), designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is completed.
- Church of Tolentini, Venice, Italy, is designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi; it will not be completed until 1714.
1590–1595 – Belvedere (fort) in Florence, Italy, designed by Bernardo Buontalenti, is constructed.
1590–1597 – Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, England, designed by Robert Smythson, is constructed.^[1]
1591
- Rialto Bridge in Venice, designed by Antonio da Ponte, is completed.
- Church of San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome is designed by Ottaviano Nonni.
1592 – Fushimi Castle in Kyoto, Japan was begun.
1592 – Church of Il Redentore on Giudecca in Venice, designed by Andrea Palladio, is consecrated.
1592 - Crooked House of Windsor original butcher-shop building, demolished 1687, but rebuilt exactly the same way after legal complications.
1596 – Villa Ferretti in the Veneto, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is built.
1596? – Kasthamandap temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
1593–1597 – Rushton Triangular Lodge in Northamptonshire, England, is designed and constructed by Sir Thomas Tresham, symbolising his Catholic recusancy.
1597
- Villa Molin in the Veneto, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is completed.
- Newark Castle on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland is rebuilt.
- Ālī Qāpū imperial palace, Isfahan, Iran, is first used ceremonially.
1599 – In Padua (Veneto), renovation begins on the Palazzo del Capitaniato arch and clock tower (expanded 1599–1605).

1590: Giovanni Antonio Rusconi's Della architettura is published posthumously in Venice.
1592: May 23 – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) begin, leading to the destruction by fire of many Korean buildings.

1591: December 22 – Tommaso Dingli, Maltese architect (died 1666)
1596
- November 1 – Pietro da Cortona, Italian baroque architect and painter (died 1669)
- Francesco Buonamici, Italian Baroque architect, painter and engraver (died 1677)^[2]
1598
- January 13 – François Mansart, French baroque architect (died 1666)
- December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque architect, sculptor and painter (died 1680)
- Baldassarre Longhena, Venetian baroque architect (died 1682)
1599: September 25 – Francesco Borromini, Ticinese-born baroque architect (died 1667)

1592: April 13 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (born 1511)
c.1592 – Girolamo Cassar, Maltese architect (born c.1520)
1595 – Antonio da Ponte, Swiss-born Venetian architect (born 1512)
1597: January 15 – Juan de Herrera, Spanish architect and geometrician (born 1530)

^ Burke, James (1978). Connections. London: Macmillan. p. 162. ISBN 0-333-24827-9.
^ Oechslin, Werner (1972). "BUONAMICI, Francesco". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 15. Archived from the original on 23 January 2020.