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Index
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Geometry and the Gothic Design Process
Explaining the Roots of the Gothic Aesthetic
Methodological Problems in the Study of Gothic Geometry
Konrad Hecht’s problematic critique of geometrical research
A new Approach to the Geometry of Gothic Drawings
1 The Origins of Gothic Architectural Drawing
Villard de Honnecourt
The Reims Palimpsest
2 The Flowering of Rayonnant Drawing in the Rhineland
Strasbourg
Cologne
Freiburg
3 Italian Drawings up to 1350
Orvieto
Siena
4 Germanic Tower Drawings and the Elaboration of Tradition
Prague
Vienna
Ulm
Regensburg
Frankfurt
Strasbourg
5 Wider Horizons
Two Germanic Tabernacles
Building Groundplans
Augsburg
Steyr
The Cloisters Drawing
Clermont-Ferrand
Leuven
6 The Italian Challenge to the Gothic Design System
The Design Debates at Milan Cathedral
The Emergence of Classical Architecture in the Italian Renaissance
Hermann Vischer and the Hybridization of Tradition
How Renaissance Design Won the Communication War
Conclusion: Gothic Drawings as Traces of the Creative Process
Bibliography
Index
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