Gothic Architecture

When you speak about Gothic, you will think about their dress up and their lifestyle. But in architecture, Gothic represent cathedrals, minsters, abbey, churches and chapels. Architecture forms is refined by the repetition of bare structural elements. For example, the windows made of pieces of stained glass whose scene tell a multiplicity of stories. Gothic architecture was concerned with focusing attention on a building of such magnificence that it passed beyond human scale. Actually, Gothic style is not fully accepted until the 19^Th century. The meaning of Gothic is people who do not have civilization.

The development of flying buttresses in the 12^Th century was the great Gothic advance. By conveying the diagonal forces from the heavy roof loads clear of the walls and down to the ground. They replace The load bearer wall with non-load bearing material such as glass. In Gothic, structure is the architecture. The structure also accepts the immense richness of detail central to the Gothic ideal. The harmonious of the visual arts made the architecture of this age so magnificent and memorable.

Gothic, born in France, spread rapidly to England and then back into the European continent. Gothic architecture basically have the pointed arch, the painted glass, the bright light pouring in between the structure of columns and vaults.