The Master Builders - Architecture in the Middle Ages

John Harvey

McGraw-Hill

1971

144 páginas

4h 48m

ISBN-10: B000HP2SKI

Too often great medieval architecture is described as if it had come into existence through some natural law of symmetry or harmony. John Harvey focuses on the architect, or master builder, and the enormous corps of artisans and unskilled workers he employed. The myth that the magnificent cathedrals of the Middle Ages were built without plan or design is shattered by the presentation of evidence of working plans and drawings that still survive.