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.

They soar impossibly skyward, their spires pierce clouds, and their stained glass transforms sunlight into kaleidoscopes of color. Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest ...

Antoni Gaudí is much lauded, but his neo-gothic works get little attention. Here are five non-Gaudí-esque Gaudí buildings.

Opened last spring on the periphery of the University of Toronto’s St. George Campus, the Daniels Building is an approximately 700,000-square-foot academic building for the Daniels Faculty of ...

If we learned anything from the recent fire and reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris, it is that the building of a Gothic cathedral depends on countless prosaic operations—the felling of oak trees, ...

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In 1945, with enrollment up almost 50 percent since the pre-war era, the Class of 1915 committed to building a new dormitory. Because materials and labor were in short supply, costs ballooned. The ...

Introduction: skyscraper gothic from nineteenth-century to postmodern expressions -- Design and the study of the past: the gothic skyscraper / Lisa Reilly -- The gothics of Francis Kimball: from ...

The Gothic mansion overlooking Biscayne Bay isn’t something you expect to see in gleaming, modern Miami, even in Coconut Grove, the oldest neighborhood in the city. “This is a magnificent example of a ...

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A couple of weeks ago I made an unplanned visit to a college that it’s probably best to leave unnamed. It’s an institution whose campus I hadn’t seen in 20 years or so, and time didn’t seem to have ...