Both are lavishly decorated, both visibly embody the highest values of the ruling class of the societies that made them, both are intended to touch our core in their different ways. Both celebrate structure. Both exhibit structural functionalism and minimalism. Both are componential. Logical resolution between the inside and the outside.
Variety becomes richness in the overall form.
Both exhibit incompleteness. Emphasis less on the overall form than on the details. Now I want to know more about the componential approach. The Gothic but could not succeed to get one. Also if I can get some more information relevant to my thesis topic that can be of some help I shall be grateful to you.