Brunelleschi's Active Structure

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Reading the article that I chose, I learned that the self-supporting structure of the octagonal “Dome” of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, by Brunelleschi, has been a subject of research and discussion on the way in which it was built. Brunelleschi never left sketches that showed construction methods, and this led many architects to wonder how he built an octagonal dome pointed of 45 meters and with the walls of a thickness of 4.25 meters. The first theory, accepted in academic circles, was by Rowland Mainstone, who in 1977 stated that Brunelleschi built the dome as if it was a circular one. But in 1980 Paolo Rossi challenged the theory of Mainstone, because he didn't consider the main corner ribs, and, in short, he didn't consider the

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