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 ...

Gothic, a word that usually brings to mind dark, strange, and creepy elements, actually outdid itself when it came to architecture. Gothic architecture is grand, detailed, has elaborate designs ...

A cathedral in Paris gave birth to Gothic architecture. (It's not Notre Dame) Saint-Denis, the burial site of France’s kings, queens, and icons, inspired an architectural revolution.

Find out how Carpenter Gothic architecture’s design elements still influence architects in Victoria at a lecture hosted by Wentworth Villa on Saturday. Gothic Revival architecture — inspired ...

Newsletter: Essential Arts: What Europe’s Gothic architecture took from Islamic design French President Emmanuel Macron, center, visits Paris’ Notre Dame reconstruction site in April.

Horror houses are not what they used to be. Not long ago, the gothic roof profile and the creaky stairs were as critical to a scary movie as the monsters, demons and killers. Perhaps even more so.

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 ...