The Splendor of English Gothic Architecture. E-book. Formato EPUB John Shannon Hendrix   -  Parkstone International, 2015  - 

This book explains and celebrates the richness of Englishchurches and cathedrals, which have a major place inmedieval architecture. The English Gothic style developedsomewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed itsown architectural and ornamental codes. The author, John Shannon Hendrix, classifies English Gothic architecture in four principal stages: the early English Gothic, the decorated, the curvilinear, and the perpendicular Gothic. Several photographs of these architectural testimonies allow us to understand the whole originality of Britain during the Gothic era: in Canterbury, Wells, Lincoln, York, and Salisbury. The English Gothic architecture is a poetic one, speaking both to the senses and spirit. churches and cathedrals, which have a major place in medieval architecture. The English Gothic style developed somewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed its own architectural and ornamental codes. The author, John Shannon Hendrix, classifies English Gothic architecture in four principal stages: the early English Gothic, the decorated, the curvilinear, and the perpendicular Gothic. Several photographs of these architectural testimonies allow us to understand the whole originality of Britain during the Gothic era: in Canterbury, Wells, Lincoln, York, and Salisbury. The English Gothic architecture is a poetic one, speaking both to the senses and spirit.

La discretizzazione della forma. Genesi e trasformazione: la geometria segreta dei reticoli spaziali delle volte gotiche. Ediz. italiana e inglese. Estratto. E-book. Formato EPUB Mara Capone   -  Gangemi Editore, 2015  - 

Costruire con ingegno per semplificare i processi costruttivi, smaterializzare le masse per stabilire regole compositive semplici, questi i fondamenti teorici e pratici della rivoluzione che si attua nei cantieri gotici e rappresenta l'ideale origine dello strutturalismo moderno. Obiettivo del contributo è quello di tracciare il percorso evolutivo che dalle prime volte medioevali conduce alla definizione dei complessi reticoli spaziali tipici dell'architettura tardogotica del nord Europa e quindi mettere a punto un'ipotesi di classificazione tipologica di queste volte basata sulla genesi geometrica. Attraverso la lettura degli scritti teorici, lo studio della strumentazione in uso nei cantieri medioevali sono state individuate le geometrie di base, superfici di rotazione o traslazione, a cui i complessi reticoli spaziali delle volte stellate, a ventaglio e reticolari, possono essere ricondotti in relazione al criterio classificatorio proposto. - The theoretical and practical concepts behind the revolution which took place in Gothic worksites were: build creatively to make construction simpler, and dematerialise masses to establish simple design rules. These concepts also represent the ideal origin of modern structuralism. This article illustrates how early medieval vaults evolved into the complex spatial tracery of Late Gothic architecture in Northern Europe. It also provides a possible classification of these vaults based on their geometric genesis. By interpreting theoretical papers and studying the tools used by medieval builders the author identifies the basic geometries, rotation or translation surfaces, to which the complex spatial tracery of stellar, fan or lierne vaults can be attributed based on the proposed classification criteria.