The Substance of Gothic
Subtitle: Six Lectures on the Development of Architecture from Charlemagne to Henry VIII
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: April 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781432606022
Subjects: Architecture / History; History - General; Architecture
First sentence: WE are called upon at this time to re-estimate our philosophies, to test by newly revealed criteria those concrete dogmas and formulae accepted so generally and for so long a time as axiomatic: to interpret anew, and in the light of an impossible catastrophe, phenomena that had taken their places in a scheme of things that is for us no longer definitive or even convincing.