Alberti's Paranigm

摘要

Could the advent of building information modelling (BIM) see the architect's status return to that of his medieval counterpart, the master builder? Guest-editor Richard Garber examines the work of Filippo Brunelleschi, who did the seemingly impossible in early 15th-century Florence by spanning the massive opening of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, the city's cathedral, through an adept use of physical models.