Title: Experiments in Gothic structure /
Authors: Mark, Robert.; Wilson, Celia,
Date: 1982
Publisher: MIT Press,
Physical description: x, 135 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: N
Contents: The enigma of Gothic structure -- Modeling Gothic structure -- The beginning of High Gothic : the cathedrals of Chartres and Bourges -- Quintessential High Gothic : Amiens Cathedral and medieval engineering -- The collapse of Beauvais Cathedral -- Innovation in English Gothic buttressing : the repairs to the tower of Wells Cathedral -- Experimentation in fourteenth-century Gothic : the church of St. Ouen, Rouen, and the cathedral of Palma, Majorca -- Gothic ribbed vaulting : the high vaults of the cathedrals of Cologne and Bourges -- Conclusion: the legacy of Gothic structure.
Notes: Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.
Subject headings (LCSH): Architecture, Gothic.