If you want to build your knowledge about architecture, these ten lesser-known facts should help to provide a solid foundation.
[...] 2. Brunelleschi was the first 'starchitect'
Containing four million bricks and weighing 37,000 tonnes, the dome of Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral is a spectacular feat of renaissance engineering. Filippo Brunelleschi won the commission with Lorenzo Ghiberti, but soon found that, while he was doing all the crucial work, Ghiberti was taking the glory. He decided to pull a sickie in order to show up Ghiberti and get the recognition he deserved. Sure enough, work ground to a halt, and Brunelleschi became the world's first superstar architect.
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