Experiments in Gothic Structure

by Robert Mark and Erich Mark

Book Overview

This fascinating study of the structural elements of Gothic cathedrals is written by an engineer who has spent the last 15 years applying analytical techniques of structural mechanics to Gothic buildings. Like a detective, he uses these techniques to solve continuing historical arguments about whether flying buttresses hold the roof up or are merely decorative, whether ornate pinnacles atop piers are structurally necessary or purely aesthetic, whether...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262131706
• ISBN13: 9780262131704
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.