Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier ...

This includes an increasing interest in preserving and restoring older buildings, with a need to understand the different styles of Gothic architecture. In 1817, the architect Thomas Rickman is one of ...

Gothic architecture developed along with cities – it was there ... Highland castles of the past are those that today can be admired as ruins: in Chęciny, Kazimierz Dolny, Ogrodzieniec, Olsztyn in the ...

The wealthy had mock-medieval buildings built for them, and some even constructed Gothic ruins (known as 'follies') in their gardens. In the mid-18th Century, in literature as in architecture ...