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Quizzical Pursuit
—The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Solution to Last Week's Puzzler
Architecture Puzzler #460
Question
The Piazza di Santo Spirito in Florence, Italy, is dominated at the north end by a church designed in 1435 and at the southeast by a large palazzo with teardrop-shaped keystones and an open loggia on the top floor. Who was the church architect and what is the name of the palazzo?
Answer
Brunelleschi designed the church in 1435 upon a much older (1250) foundation. The building now has an unfinished 18th-century facade.
At the southeast corner of the square is the Palazzo Guadagni, the first residence in Florence to feature an upper-level open loggia. The author of this quiz is sorry to say that this palazzo is no longer owned by his family.
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
Quizzical Pursuit is Copyright 2010, Dave Guadagni.
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South front of the church at Piazza di Santo Spirito, Florence, Italy.
Photo: Johnson Architectural Images/ Artifice Images
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