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Gothic architecture goes on Gothic architecture reigned for 400 years, however by the end of the 1400s, other styles were favored. Architectural history with illustrations and resources.
Gothic Architecture - Windows and Gargoyles Since the walls themselves were no longer the primary supports, Gothic buildings could include large areas of glass. Architectural history with illustrations and resources.
The Gothic Revolution If ever architecture expressed spiritual ideals, it would be in the lofty Gothic structures of medieval Europe and Great Britain. Here's a history and description of the style, with illustrations and resources.
Gothic Architecture Websites offering images, terms, and background on the most recognizable medieval architectural style.
New Ideas in Gothic Architecture New techniques of construction permitted Gothic buildings to soar to amazing new heights, dwarfing anyone who stepped inside. An architectural history with illustrations and resources.
Gothic arch: a mysterious new building Luis Bunuel would've loved
SOME BUILDINGS make you wonder. Consider the four-story brick-and-concrete schoolhouse that was completed recently on Pico near Doheny. The building ......(Continue Reading) Was there a George VI style? Now that the story of British architecture and design in the twentieth century is less often distorted by over-emphasis on
Writing under his pseudonym, Peter F. Donner, in the Architectural Review in November 1941, Nikolaus Pevsner opened by stating that 'Every phase in history has its style permeating all its producti...(Continue Reading)Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes explores the influence of Puginian ideals on Australian architecture. (Radar Exhibition).
During the final years of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the century that followed, there arose in the Netherlands a highly refined variant ......(Continue Reading)Australian Gothic: The Gothic Revival in Australian Architecture from the 1840s to the 1950s. (Radar: Books). (book review)
The brilliant legacy of Soane and Wren has rarely found its match in the contemporary projects of the capital. Just as Britain has no constitution, ......(Continue Reading)Renaissance Gothic in the Netherlands: The Uses of Ornament
Charles Jencks suggests culture is transforming itself from the simple certainties of Modernism to a much more complex interpretation of reality based ......(Continue Reading)
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