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 architecture is tall, slender, sleek and elegant. New York-based architect Mark Foster Gage looks at the history of one of the world’s most recognizable architectural styles, and explains ...

The study comes at a time where interest in Collegiate Gothic architecture is at an all time high. Harvard and Princeton, the center of the arduous academic challenge of the Ivy Leagues and of the ...

A secret skeleton revealed in the centuries-old Gothic cathedral during reconstruction shows that Notre Dame was likely the first to use iron staples to reinforce its architecture.

Romanesque architecture eventually evolved into Gothic, swapping thick walls for thin ones and small windows for large ones. The Renaissance, however, reverted back to the ancient Roman way of ...

Gothic architecture first emerged in mid-12th-century Paris with churches like the Basilica of Saint-Denis, which is often regarded as the birth of the style. “There were other buildings that ...