Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Brunelleschi's Dome

How do the actions and decisions of people effect change? The Cathedral in Florence has been abandoned for at least 100 years before Cosimo De Medici sponsored Brunelleschi, whose brilliant idea was used to complete the dome.  His actions were to use the egg balancing technique. The change after his wise idea is a dome with no scaffolding! 


Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore was built in 1296. It was abandoned for 100 years with no dome. But in 1436, a genius architect named Filippo Brunelleschi engineered the dome which has no scaffolding. The dome has stood for 500 years because of Brunelleschi's brilliant architecture strategy.

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