Title: Il Duomo, winches, and scaffolding
Date: 1418-1436
Nationality: Italy (Florence)
Creator: Brunelleschi
Medium: Architecture,
engineering
Having lost to Lorenzo Ghiberti for the privilege
of completing the doors to the baptistery of Saint John the Baptist in
Florence, Italy, Filippo Brunelleschi, left for Rome where he studied
architecture and clockwork. His
profession and study resulted in an incredible influx of knowledge (or rather,
of concepts) that he was able to synthesize into a solution for one of
Florence’s biggest problems: the incompletion of the central cathedral. The cathedral was so big that almost two
decades after it was built, no one had been able to construct a suitable dome
to crown it. In order to solve this
problem, Brunelleschi was able to utilize architectural concepts that resulted
from the synthesis of his body of
knowledge. As he worked and learned, the
concepts gained from clock making connected with concepts about aesthetics,
architecture, and engineering (Strong and Davis 17). These combined and interwoven concepts gave
him the inspiration he needed to envision and create Il Duomo, as well as
create the ingenious tools that would facilitate its production. This lateral thinking, made possible by the
synthesis of concepts made possible architectural and engineering feats that
were previously thought of as nigh impossible.
Image taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Cathedral
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