Giovanni Battista Cairati

Giovanni Battista Cairati, known in Portuguese as João Baptista Cairato, was an Italian architect and engineer. Cairati was a leading military architect and, after the union of the Portuguese and Spanish empires in 1580, he was sent to the east by Philip II to redesign many of the fortresses. He dominated Portuguese military architecture in the Orient from the African coast to Malacca from 1583 to 1596.