Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier, rounder ...
Editor’s Note: Mark Foster Gage is an American architect and founder of Mark Foster Gage Architects in New York. He is also a professor of architecture at Yale University School of Architecture. New ...
Gothic architectural aspiration was unequivocally bound for the heavens. From about 1150, in order to support the weight of the increasingly vertiginous vaulted ceilings, reduce the thickness of walls ...
The Gothic Age was famed for its towering churches filled with glorious stained-glass windows. The Gothic Age was famed for its towering churches filled with colorful light shining through glorious ...
Gothic, a word that usually brings to mind dark, strange, and creepy elements, actually outdid itself when it came to architecture. Gothic architecture is grand, detailed, has elaborate designs, and ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Britain under Queen Victoria was in the middle of an industrial boom, yet the architecture that flourished during her ...
Nos 33-35 Eastcheap, which Ian Nairn described as "truly demoniac, an Edgar Allan Poe of a building". Image: Edmund Harris Rogue Gothic is Victorian architecture at its most flamboyant, eccentric and ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Cast-iron settee in the “Gothic” ...