Road Trip Through History: Climbing Brunelleschi’s Dome

One of the first things My Own True Love and I did in Florence was visit Brunelleschi’s dome.*   I suspect we are not alone in making that choice. The first thing you need to know about visiting the Duomo is that it is part of a complex of impressive buildings, made up of the cathedral,…

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Brunelleschi’s Dome

The architecture book is done.  While I was working on it, I wouldn’t have said it was fun. (My Own True Love will corroborate this.) I put in a lot of late nights.  I struggled to find a simple way to describe how an arch works.*  But along the way I re-read some old favorites,…

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