Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa and a specialist in the study of ...

This includes an increasing interest in preserving and restoring older buildings, with a need to understand the different styles of Gothic architecture. In 1817, the architect Thomas Rickman is one of ...

When Medieval Europeans decided to build massive stone cathedrals, they had to use more complicated designs of arches: one with heavier supports on the sides (called flying buttresses, light blue in ...

Image: Edmund Harris Rogue Gothic is Victorian architecture at its most flamboyant, eccentric and colourful, and London is one of the best places to see it. We're so used to having buildings with ...

His paper Memories of Church Restoration was read at a society meeting in June 1906 and, in one of his reports, he wrote: ‘Irregularity is the genius of Gothic architecture, and it is an act of ...