Filippo+Brunelleschi

Filippo Brunelleschi was an genius Italian architect and innovator practicing around 1400-1445. He is most notably known for inventing double shell dome structure and discovery (debatable) or re-discovery of geometric linear perspective drawing. His contributions to human society forever changed the way we think about structures and linear perspective drawing. The Florence cathedral had set out to build a dome as large as the Pantheon. Unfortunately, the ancient roman technology was lost. That meant no one knew how to build a dome as large as that. There were two major problems in constructing this dome of this size:

Keystone or centering

Outward force  Innovation in architecture can be for 1) aesthetic pursuit – trying to attain a certain look or shape (like the dome under discussion) and 2) functional pursuit (tall structures etc). I wonder what types of innovation architecture might see if we pursued aesthetic shapes with a function.

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"//Architecture is waiting for innovations. Compare the profession with other fields such as computer science or medical science. We are basically at the same place we were 50 years ago. So if you dream of making buildings, pursue it with a little Brunelleschi spirit. Develop a clear objective, pursue it with rigour, fuel it with mini innovations and you might just change how we think about architecture forever.//" - Vat Jaiswal