The structural analysis of Gothic cathedrals
By: by Robert Mark
Published: 1972
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Church architecture; Gothic Architecture; Cathédrale de Chartres; Cathédrale Saint-Etienne de Bourges
Notes: "Comparison of Chartres and Bourges by optical stress analysis relates the aesthetic achievement to structural imperatives and suggests that later Gothic cathedrals may have been patterned on the wrong building"--P. [90]