# Gothic Architecture

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Category: Architecture
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:17:22.416Z
Tags: architecture, gothic

## Summary

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..

## Slide Outline

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

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