Flying buttresses act the same way ancient Roman columns did, countering the horizontal force of the arch. They also provide for more ground area underneath: more worshippers could fit into a church ...

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THE architecture of Yale University has long been an enormous clutter of poorly integrated styles and hideous imitations, where Gothic halls ... Byzantine, and ancient Egyptian fakery.

It was labelled Gothic because it was considered the opposite of classical architecture ... is strange to think that a word referring to an ancient population became a way to describe a new ...

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