Gothic Revival
ゴシック・リヴァイヴァル / 1740s–1900s / Style / Historical Styles
A movement that deliberately chose the pointed arch and the verticality of the Middle Ages again, in objection to industrialization and to classicism. It was not simple nostalgia. It created the idea that choosing a style is an argument about morality and national character.
The pointed arch and an emphasis on the vertical / Rib vaults and pinnacles / Stone used together with iron / Ornament drawn from medieval manuscripts
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Giving institutions and scholarship the weight of accumulated time · Giving a place tension and height through verticality
- Type
- Blackletter for headings only, with a readable face for text.
- Composition
- Strengthen the vertical divisions and lead the eye up and down.
- Material
- Pair the texture of stone with light passing through colored glass.
- Caution
- Applying a pointed arch is not enough. Unless the vertical runs through the structure you get a theme park.
- Further study
- Pugin's Contrasts and his moral argument / The rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament / Ruskin and the Gothic of Venice