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The gothic revival architects started with the
principles of the earlier period and expanded on them in order to develop a
unique and functional style appropriate for the industrialized era. This 5
page paper asserts that the primary difference between the earlier era of
design and the later is the use of different materials and the effects that
are allowed because of those differences. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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The gothic revivalism of the nineteenth century was based more on a concept than on the aesthetic quality of its element - or so many of its critics would argue.
Many individuals, including Victor Hugo, have attempted "to preserve medieval monuments through the process of resignification, recasting Gothics symbolic connection from a despotic past repudiated by the French Revolution
to a symbol of continuity with the best of the past, in his successful struggle to realign the French national consciousness (quoted in Nichols 138). The medieval gothic period
inspired the revivalist movement but did not define it. The revival architects started with the principles of the earlier period and expanded on them in order to develop a
unique and functional style appropriate for the industrialized era. The forms of the gothic period - such as the bay, arches, buttresses, wooden roof, colonette, balustrade, dormer, fenestration and
tracery - are included in and expanded upon, within the revivalist form. In both instances, the style was seen as a reaction to a more liberal and less religiously
oriented style such as classical, neoclassical and, or, romanticism. The neoclassical styles celebrated the rationalism of the Renaissance and stood in fundamental opposition to the gothic revival styles
that revered the spiritualism of the Middle Ages. The Gothic approach emphasized the complexity of interior space, while the exterior was aimed toward heaven. Gothic vaults supported towering
spires that reached toward God (Boulton 109). The gothic and the gothic revival styles share this element of meaning within shapes - the call to the divine which
is brought about by high spires and arches. "The uniqueness of the Gothic Revival is indeed that, virtually alone among architectural styles, it was founded on and proclaimed moral
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