History

For your essay, select one Gothic cathedral and discuss the relationship of technology, ritual and form. Also, identify and consult at least two additional scholarly sources within your research. Document and discuss your findings in writing (1500-2000 words), include a bibliography and a list of image sources. Use Chicago Style as a citation format.

1. Impact of the relationship of state and church (on architecture): Which political and economic changes made the cathedrals possible? How are the local and over regional conditions reflected in the buildings?
2. Structural System: Which structural system and what type of construction technology was employed and what was the spatial effect?
3. Organization/Form: What are the main organizational and formal principles applied in the chosen cathedral?
4. Relationship of Details to Whole: How do architectural details express the formal and compositional principles that also define the entire building?

Understanding of parallel and divergent histories of architecture and the cultural norms of a variety of indigenous, vernacular, local, and regional settings in terms of their political, economic, social, ecological, and technological factors.