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 ...

But a lot of us (I mean me) can't tell a portico from a pediment or the Neo-Gothic from the Neo-Romanesque. That's why I sat down with Anne-Marie Armstrong from AAmp Studio, an architecture firm ...

As Gothic architecture emerged, many classical traditions receded. “In the Middle Ages, [architects] left behind the human metaphor and moved to the superhuman,” Dr. Bork adds.

Cities with abundant Gothic Revival architecture tend to be older in general. In 16 of the top 25 cities, the population peaked in the 20th century. Some 22 of the 25 cities on the list were ...

The principle of Gothic architecture, wrote 19th-century poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is infinity made imaginable. There is something almost inexpressibly inspiring about a 1000-year-old ...

Gothic novels often involve horror, haunted houses, and vampires. But the word ‘Gothic’ was first associated with an architectural style that began with churches in France in the 12 th Century CE.

Here are six places where you can sample Rogue Gothic architecture at its finest. 1. Nos 33-35 Eastcheap, 1868 by Robert Lewis Roumieu (1814-77) ...

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 ...