Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa and a specialist in the study of Gothic architecture, was working in his office when a student knocked on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Cristian Baitg Schreiweis/Getty Images From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa ...

Editor’s Note: Mark Foster Gage is an American architect and founder of Mark Foster Gage Architects in New York. He is also a professor of architecture at Yale University School of Architecture. New ...

Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier, rounder ...

The Renaissance entered Britain tardily, and on tip-toe. When Henry VII demolished the old Lady Chapel of Westminster Abbey in 1502, he replaced it with something more extravagantly gothic, with ...

Winston Churchill's family seat was begun by John Vanbrugh in 1705 and completed almost two decades later by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Much of the bill was footed by the state, in honour of the Duke of ...