In midst of designing the famed domed roof atop the Florence Cathedral, Filippo Brunelleschi, one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance, was also building an estate for a noble family ...

Marta Minujín, Parthenon of Books, Dokumenta 14, Kassel, Germany, 2017. Image by Anne-Catrin Schultz.. Image Courtesy of Real and Fake in Architecture–Close to the Original, Far from Authenticity?

Filippo Brunelleschi designed Florence Cathedral's famed red-brick dome. Getty Images Engineers and tourists alike have long marveled at the impressive domes of the Italian Renaissance, including ...

Six hundred years ago, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi finished one and two in a contest to design the decorative bronze doors that now grace Florence's beloved Baptistry. Ghiberti, the ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town fathers of Florence finally addressed a monumental problem they’d been ignoring for decades: the ...

Reid Hoffman seems to significantly — and tellingly — misunderstand the intentions of the Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi by attributing to him a modern and secular mindset that would have ...