Movement
Gothic Revival
Explore in the Atlas →A Romantic nineteenth-century revival of medieval Gothic forms, charged by Pugin and Ruskin with moral and Christian meaning as a nostalgic resistance to classicism and industrialisation; its monuments include the Houses of Parliament.
Memory Ritual
Details
- Origin
- England
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- AncestryRevelation cosmology
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Gothic Architecture influenced
- Amos Rapoport associated with
Sources
- Megan Aldrich. Gothic Revival. Phaidon Press, 1994.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Gothic Revival." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/gothic-revival/. Accessed July 17, 2026.