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 ...

GOTHIC stretched across the English Channel, where it infiltrated Norman and native building styles to produce an “English” variation of Gothic; and then it spread across Christian Europe, pushing the ...

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Gothic architecture first emerged in the 12th century and was most closely related with church architecture, though other uses did exist. In religious settings, it was meant to suggest the superhuman.

As you approach Aldie on Route 50, a church spire gradually rises above the newly built housing complexes and data centers.

But the key protagonist for the Gothic Revival by much of Victorian England was the architect, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852). After helping his father to survey and record medieval ...

Robert Mohan ’26’s “Love Letter to Princeton’s Contemporary Architecture,” was an eloquent and admirable defense of the “gray masses”: the University’s newest additions of Yeh College and New College ...

Three experts weigh in on Gothic architecture, ... This neo-Gothic style became widespread in the early 19th century, applying medieval forms and features to a more modern setting.