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 ...

Lawrence Biemiller was a senior writer who began working at The Chronicle of Higher Education in 1980. He wrote about campus architecture, the arts, and small colleges, among many other topics.

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.

Step inside an abandoned Gothic Revival farmhouse where intricate architecture meets haunting silence. This forgotten gem blends historic charm with eerie decay, telling stories of a bygone era ...

Blink - Online identity & payment technologiesIn the words of Demetri Porphyrios, Whitman’s architect, the college “continues and furthers Princeton’s tradition of collegiate campus life that is ...

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 ...

‘Skyscraper Gothic’ Review: A Spire is Born Early 20th-century American architects were drawn to the forms of Medieval architecture By Michael J. Lewis Share Resize ...

Compared with stone architecture used in Roman times, such as the Roman Colosseum, Gothic architecture, which dates back to around the 12th to 16th centuries in Europe, used innovations in ...

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 ...