Collegiate Gothic

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Collegiate Gothic

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The basics of the Gothic style
Flying Buttress
Gothic architecture is a European style of
architecture that values height and exhibits
an intricate and delicate aesthetic.
Gothic style in architecture has shown itself
mostly in churches and cathedrals. It had the
desire to move away from the human scale
and ascend into the sky. This attitude
resulted in new architectural characteristics
and forms. The major Gothic architecture
characteristics are flying buttresses, ribbed
vaults, rose windows and towers tapered
toward the sky.
Ornate Decotation

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Traditions of using Gothic in England
university
• Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic
Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th
centuries for college and high school buildings in the United
States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europe. A form
of historicist architecture, it took its inspiration from English Tudor
and Gothic buildings.

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Oxford
Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library is the main research library of
the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries
in Europe.
The majestic Gothic vaults of the library building attract
thousands of tourists every year.
New College
Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester,
New College is one of the most significant Medieval buildings of
its kind in Europe and an excellent example of English
Perpendicular Gothic style.

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Cambridge
The Chapel of King's College is a complete late Gothic ensemble.The Cambridge Temple is a complex but mathematically ordered
world. The world of reason and heavenly harmony.The western facade of the Chapel, facing the Kem River, has become the
hallmark of the city.
Chapel of King's Colleg

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Gothic revival in the 21st century
A number of colleges and universities have commissioned major new buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style in recent years. These
include Princeton University's Whitman College, designed by Porphyrios Associates, and Benjamin Franklin College and Pauli
Murray College, both designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, at Yale University.
Whitman College
Paulie Murray College
Yale University

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• Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with
light through, not light on.
Marshall McLuhan