Experiments in Gothic Architecture

By Mark Robert

First published over thirty years ago, Experiments in Gothic Architecture is a fascinating study of the structural elements of Gothic cathedrals written by an engineer who spent fifteen years applying analytical techniques of structural mechanics to Gothic buildings. Like a detective, he used these techniques to solve continuing historical arguments about whether flying buttresses hold the roof up or are merely decorative, whether ornate pinnacles atop piers are structurally necessary or purely aesthetic, whether the ribs of the vaults hold up the ceiling as is generally believed, and whether the cathedral at Chartres deserves its place in history as the height of innovative medieval design.

London, 2014,  21  x  14.8 cm, illustrated, 176pp. Paperback.

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