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Gothic Architecture

Romanesque churches are thick walls with small holes for light. Gothic churches reverse the proposition: thin stone screens framing immense windows. The...

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Romanesque churches are thick walls with small holes for light. Gothic churches reverse the proposition: thin stone screens framing immense windows. The wall, structurally, dissolves. Key sections include: Gothic Architecture.; Opening The wall dissolves.; Chapter I What came before.; Chapter II The pointed arch.; Chapter III Suger's Saint-Denis.; Chapter IV Notre-Dame de Paris.; Chapter V Chartres.; Chapter VI Glass as theology.; Chapter VII The flying buttress.; Chapter VIII Reims..

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  1. 01Gothic Architecture.
  2. 02Opening The wall dissolves.
  3. 03Chapter I What came before.
  4. 04Chapter II The pointed arch.
  5. 05Chapter III Suger's Saint-Denis.
  6. 06Chapter IV Notre-Dame de Paris.
  7. 07Chapter V Chartres.
  8. 08Chapter VI Glass as theology.
  9. 09Chapter VII The flying buttress.
  10. 10Chapter VIII Reims.
  11. 11Chapter IX Amiens.
  12. 12Chapter X Sainte-Chapelle.
  13. 13Chapter XI England diverges.
  14. 14Chapter XII Cologne.
  15. 15Chapter XIII Italy refuses.
  16. 16Chapter XIV Spain and Portugal.
  17. 17Chapter XV Backsteingotik.
  18. 18Chapter XVI The window grows up.
  19. 19Chapter XVII Saints, gargoyles, the dead.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII Who built them.
  21. 21Chapter XIX Suger.
  22. 22Chapter XX The reformation and after.
  23. 23Chapter XXI The Gothic Revival.
  24. 24Chapter XXII Restoration today.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Hall church.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV Iconography of the cathedral.
  27. 27Chapter XXV For the shelf.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII Why it still works.
  30. 30Colophon
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