Filippo Brunelleschi’s design of the dome for Florence’s cathedral, Santa Maria del Flore, was one hundreds of years before its time. The man was a visionary and incredibly brilliant. He spent many years in Rome observing their architecture and learning from their workmanship and structures. He created a design that would involve two domes that would be one inside the other. In the process of building this famous dome, he created other designs that are still used to this day, such as the pulley system and tension rings. I am in awe at the forward thinking nature of his design and the impact that you can still see in the way things are built to this day. We are currently in the process of building a home, and the process that we have endured