milan, duomo

I wrote my undergraduate thesis about the Milan Cathedral’s developmental relationship with its host city and the investigation sparked my interest in urban projects. The cathedral also shares a piazza with the perhaps more germane Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II and, although one must buy a 4 euro ticket and ascend a few hundred steps to get to it, the cathedral’s broad roof, bounded by a filigree of spires and stonework, presents an intensely communal platform as bright as its vaulted hall is dark.