Architecture Culture & History

For Architecture Culture & History, our group consisted of Amos, Andrew, Winnie, and me had to do a research on Gothic architecture, specifically, the St. Vitus Cathedral.

What is Gothic architecture?
Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. Originating in 12th-century France and lasting into the 16th century, Gothic architecture was known during the period as Opus Francigenum with the term Gothic first appearing during the later part of the Renaissance. Its characteristics include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress. Gothic architecture is most familiar as the architecture of many of the great cathedrals, abbeys and churches of Europe. It is also the architecture of many castles, palaces, town halls, guild halls, universities and to a less prominent extent, private dwellings.

St. Vitus Cathedral;

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert is a Roman Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Up to 1997, the cathedral was dedicated only to Saint Vitus, and is still commonly named only as St. Vitus Cathedral.

For the Precedent Study & Analysis;

1. i) Who was the architect or founder of the building?

The architect(s) os St. Vitus Cathedral: Peter Parler, and Matthias of Arras.

Matthias of Arras

Matthias was born in Arras, however little else is thought about his initial life. In 1344 he was summoned to Prague from the papal court of Avignon by Charles IV to lead deals with the recently established St. Vitus Cathedral. He is likewise generally perceived as the designer of Karlstein Castle, despite the fact that this is not completely verified.

His inclusion in the configuration of the New Town of Prague is likewise not totally certain.

At the point when Matthias died at Prague in 1352, St. Vitus Cathedral was not yet finished.

The part of its ace artisan and Charles' head designer tumbled to then twenty-three years of age Peter Parler.

Peter Parler

Peter Parler turned into the master mason of St. Vitus Cathedral in 1352, after the death of its unique designer, Matthias of Arras.

ii) What was the concept or philosophy of the architect or founder that makes the building historically significant / meaningful?

Concept: The present-day St. Vitus Cathedral was established on 21 November 1344, when the Prague bishopric was raised to an archbishopric. Its benefactors were the section of church (drove by a Dean), the Archbishop Arnost of Pardubice, and, most importantly, Charles IV, King of Bohemia and an impending Holy Roman Emperor, who proposed the new house of God to be a royal celebration church, family sepulcher, treasury for the most valuable relics of the kingdom, and the last resting spot/journey site of benefactor holy person Wenceslaus.

The main expert developer was a Frenchman Matthias of Arras, summoned from the papal royal residence in Avignon. Matthias outlined the general design of the building as, essentially, an import of French Gothic: a triple-naved basilica with flying supports, short transept, five-bayed choir and decagon apse with walking and transmitting sanctuaries. Then again, he lived to construct just the easternmost parts of the choir: the arcades and the mobile. The thin verticality of Late French Gothic and clear, practically inflexible appreciation of extents recognize his work today.

Peter Parler. (2005, May 26). Retrieved April 22, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Parler

Matthias of Arras. (2005, May 25). Retrieved April 22, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_of_Arras

St. Vitus Cathedral. (2005, July 8). Retrieved April 22, 2015, from https://www.hrad.cz/en/prague-castle/history/archaeological-research.shtml, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Vitus_Cathedral#The_Gothic_Cathedral

For Individual work;

The question I chose was number 5, which is about Spatial Planning.

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