Scholarly reflection on the relationship between human ideals and the built environment is not limited to contemporary buildings. Recognising scholarly studies of authoritarianism, totalitarianism and monumentalism, the aim of this particular workshop was to ask in what sense buildings and urban spaces have been conceived as symbols and instruments for democracy/equality/eternity/freedom/purity/utopia/independence/reform/virtue/...
This illustrated essay attempted to explore how the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore materialise humanism in the context of the origin of the Italian Renaissance.
