GOTHIC

The name ‘Gothic’

• From the Renaissance

• Begins in France in XIIth Century

• Almost all Europe

XII CenturyAGRICULTURAL

Technical improvements

MORE POPULATION CITIES

MORE POWER TO KINGS

FEUDALISMDECADENCE

The CITY is the center of CULTURE

BETTER ECONOMICAL CONDITIONS

NEW CLIENTSFOR

ART

NEWSOCIAL CLASSBOURGEOISIE

MORETIME FOR

CULTURE

CULTURALDEVELOPMENT

FIRSTUNIVERSITIES

CATHEDRALS

NATURALISM(Aristotle)

HUMANISM(S. Francesco of Asisi)

INFLUENCE

NEW IDEAS

• God is LIGHT.

• Human body is not a miserable recipient for the soul.

• From the Apocalypse to the Gospel and Virgin Mary.

New cathedrals

• LIGHT

• VERTICAL

New techinical solutions

POINTED ARCH ARCH

RIB VAULTEN EL INTERIOR

RIB VAULT

TRANSVERSE RIBS

RIB VAULT

DIAGONAL RIBS

RIB VAULTDIAGONAL RIBS

BOSS

SIXPARTITE VAULTBOVEDA DE TERCELETES

FAN VAULT

EACH RIB ENDS IN A PIER OR PILLASTER

THE MORE RIBS THE MORE PIERS

NO CAPITALS IN THE COLUMNS

YOU DON’T NEED THICK WALLS ANYMORE

WALLS DON’T SUPPORT

THEY COULD BUILDTALLER AND TALLER

BUILDINGS

INSTEAD OF WALLS THERE’S LIGHT

WINDOWS ARE BIGGER

GOD IS LIGHT

FLOOR PLAN

TRANSEPT

AMBULATORY

FLOOR PLAN

AMBULATORY

OUTSIDE

TALLER NAVES

NEED

NEW TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS

FLYING BUTTRESS

BUTTRESSES

ARE NOT FIXED TO THE WALLS

BUTTRESS

MAIN NAVE

FLYING BUTTRESSES

PINACLES

HELPS SUPPORTING THE BUTTRESSES WITH THEIR WEIGHT

AND GIVES A FEELING OF VERTICALITY

SPIRE

VERTICALITY AGAIN

GARGOYLES

GARGOYLES

THE GOTHIC PORTAL

THE GOTHIC PORTAL

GABLE

ROSE WINDOW