Wayne Kalayjian is author of the new book Saving Michelangelo’s Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution, the incredible story of how precarious cracking throughout the dome of St. Peter's Basilica prompted an unprecedented collision of the greatest minds in construction, science, math, and the Catholic Church.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Kalayjian is a civil and structural engineer who has designed buildings, bridges, towers, and tunnels on five continents. He knows how they are built, why they stand up, how to keep them safe, and why—on occasion—they fall down.
Wayne also lectures at the University of Southern California and is an engineering expert for the California Department of Consumer Affairs. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and art history from Tufts University, a master’s degree in structural and earthquake engineering from Stanford University, and a master’s degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1995, Wayne engineered the move of an historic lighthouse on Cape Cod National Seashore. Just as the mathematicians in his book saved Michelangelo’s dome from collapse, he used those same scientific principles to save Highland Light from falling into the sea. Since then, his one-of-a-kind drawings have been on permanent display at the lighthouse museum in North Truro, Massachusetts. Wayne was raised in New England and lives in Southern California.
EXTRA: The Feast of the Chair of St. Peter
The Pope Who Had RBF (Servant of God, Pope Benedict XIII)
The Pope Who Was BFFs With Charlemagne (Pope Adrian I)
The Pope Who Outsmarted Napoleon (Servant of God, Pope Pius VII)
The Pope Who Made the Emperor Kneel in the Snow (St. Gregory VII)
The Pope Who Built the Wall (St. Leo IV)
The Pope They Called a Heretic (Honorius I) - Infallibility Series, Pt. 3
The Pope Who Was Once an Antipope (Vigilius) - Infallibility Series, Pt. 2
Gaudete et Exsultate: Interview w/ Katie Prejean McGrady
The First Pope to Not Be a Saint (Liberius) - Infallibility Series, Pt. 1
The Pope who Condemned the Sexual Revolution (St. Paul VI)
The Pope Who Confirmed the Canon of Scripture (St. Damasus I)
The Pope Who Founded Western Civilization (St. Gregory the Great)
A Very Bad Pope (Benedict IX)
The Pope Who Battled Attila the Hun (St. Leo the Great)
The Pope with the Bird on His Head (St. Fabian)
The Pope Who Almost Contributed to the Bible (St. Clement I)
The "About Dang Time" Pope (Bl. Gregory X)
The First Pope (St. Peter)
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