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 ...

An ornate confection of Gothic Revival, this 1840s Albany townhouse is one of an eye-catching row designed with the hallmarks of the style. There are quatrefoils, Gothic tracery and arches, hooded ...

Gothic architectural aspiration was unequivocally bound for the heavens. From about 1150, in order to support the weight of the increasingly vertiginous vaulted ceilings, reduce the thickness of walls ...

Light was important to medieval theologians, as it symbolised God's first creation. The use of stained-glass windows transformed ordinary light into something divine, and Gothic architecture developed ...