It's incredible how ingenious the architecture from Gothic buildings is on both an aesthetic and a functional perspective. just beautiful.

There aren't any real castles because they were completely ineffective against the kangaroos. However, Gothic architecture confused and intimidated the roos too much for them to figure out an attack.

Seeing this Cathedral makes me wish that architects would stop trying to make those Le Corbusier abominations.

I somehow missed this video when it came out and I'm really glad that I came back and found it, this is so well presented and it's just made so much better by your genuine enthusiasm for the subject. The architecture is literally awe inspiring. Walking into a structure like this is always a truly moving experience.

I had started reading about Gothic architecture about 4 years ago and attempted to sketch the buildings and stuff and even now that I'm studying architecture in university and I've read about a lot more styles this one is still one of my favourites :D I would never understand how someone could find it unappealing

Dude, Shad, no matter how bad my day seems, your possitive enthusiasm for what you are talking about is infectous and uplifting. thanks for the great content!

...and no mention of the brilliant acoustics??? The buildings were practical too! Singing in Gothic cathedrals is so awe-inspiring cause the sounds is caught and carries to the very back. Also the open-plan really complements the huge amounts of light let in. They really are beautiful.

I binged a couple of your videos. Your passion just spills through the screen and onto the keyboard. Super interesting. I originally come from a city centred around a gorgeous monastery. Every time I visit the city, I always go there, hoping to take some awesome photos, but the people there never fail to give that unpleasant gaze of disapproval. Last time I've been there, my neck literally hurt from all the staring up. Fascinating how all the beauty has its roots in practicality. That's the leading idea behind modern architecture, simple and practical. But I can't help but doubt that in a century people will be in awe of our designs. I think they'll disregard them and keep appreciating the Gothic style.

My school used to be a cathedral. Every day feels like I’m walking into a Wizard Academy.

it's interesting, that you use the contrast 'gothic vs. castle architecture' instead of 'gothic vs. romanesque architecture'. unfortunately this means you missed (or at least didn't mention) one of the 'core features' of gothic architecture: the arches aren't semi-circular anymore, but pointed.

Very good video, but I am not completely convinced by your explanation of the stone colors. Yes it looks good, but the primary reason is that different stones have different properties. The black stone is probably a schist or a granite, a very hard stone, probably local/cheap, but impossible to carve: schiste is anisotropic and granite is non homogeneous at a milimetric scale. Therefore they used limestone for windows and interior decoration because that is perfect for art. In Brittany we have a lot of old churches made completely in granite, and statues are very rough, almost like modern art. On the other hand, near the Loire/Seine rivers, cathedrals are made completely out of limestone, and you can't say they don't look badass ;)

Here in Australia we don’t have any castles (cut section of the video showing Shad sobbing loudly for ten minutes)

I am amazed, that there are Gothic cathedrals in Australia, as in Europe Gothic cathedrals were usually built (or at least designed and started to build) between the 12th and 16th century, while Australia wasn't really colonized until the 18th to 19th (?) century. I guess the Australian cathedrals were built in the wave of Gothic revival in the 19th century?

This is a wonderfully informative video; I love this channel!

that is probably one of the best neogothic churches ive seen, its really anatomically correct in the sense that it doesn't just mimic the aesthetics but actually replicates the structural elements

Wow. I've learned so much in this video! : ) Nice job breaking it down into pieces.

Recently I watched a few of Shad's videos on architecture again and I have to say, they are all incredibly good! It really adds so much to this channel, especially this rare one, where Shad actually went to a cathedral to talk about it.

I’m doing some architecture studies and this video was so helpful!! Thanks Shad !

Thank you so much for this very descriptive and visually oriented video. This is really going to help me when I start building my 3D environment with Gothic Architecture in it.

Shad this video was incredible, thank you for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm. Also, as a Catholic, I appreciate your respect and reverence while filming the interior. Religious structures of any kind command respect. Also, what an extraordinary building. Thank you again for sharing.

Wow, many thanks for the detailed explanation. The next time I drop by the cathedral, I will take a closer look. Thanks again for your research and sharing.

I have to agree this is a beautiful piece of art. Great video, and your passion is contagious!

gorgeous building. thank you for the tour.

This is fantastic. I loved this video and would like to see more breakdowns like this.

Thank you. This was really well done and helpful to understand the subject manner.

Gothic architecture (particularly French Gothic) is just incredible. The artistry, the engineering, the sheer scale... achieving all of that with the technoloy and knowledge of the times... mind-blowing. I've been enamored with Gothic cathedrals for a good year or so now, so I'm excited to see one of my new favorite KZfaqrs make a video on why it's awesome :D

Great video! I really enjoy your castle and medieval architecture videos. I'm a carpenter and builder I love seeing different architecture seeing how things were built and trying to figure out logistically how I would go about building or directing a project like this. What would be the process? I would love to be able to see the foundation and footers used on this building. How deep are they and how massive the stones for the footers must be.

Wonderful to see someone so passionately enthusiastic about something like this most people never spend a thought on. :)

You made such a great explanation, even I could understand easily!

What I see in this video, is myself when I look at gothic architecture. It's also not an everyday sight to see a person with camera being so respectful to places like this and adopting the customary low voice. Especially on youtube. I really enjoyed this overview of gothic style.

i loved the video, and learned a lot! Thanks Shad!

Awesome presentation Shad, you probably know of these already but you should really look up Durham Cathedral and the York Minster absolutely bloody gorgeous they are. If you ever find yourself in the North of England you should really pay them a visit they are amazing.

Great explanation! I’ve always loved Gothic architecture.

I watched a program on tv not too long ago talking about arches and it is really, really interesting how they hold themselves up (if I remember right, knock out the top of the arch it all falls down)...anyways, you have just added to that knowledge of directing forces and such, so thank you. The gothic style architecture is probably my favourite, and luckily we do have some good examples in Aus (mostly churches, in fact, I should check out Adelaide one day, I hear it's the city of churches...so they probably have quite a few examples).

I learn a lot more from youtube than I ever did in a classroom, things are just way better explained on youtube... AND, it is way better to comprehend when you can actually see what is being taught to you. Thank you!

Thanks for this. I'm currently studying gothic archetecture and I've learned quite a bit from this video.

I absolutely love Gothic architecture, and neoclassical style architecture as well.

I love your vids man, keep up the good work

Shad being at the location to explain things... It is absolutely beautiful

There I am at 18:25! Didn't know it at the time that I would be part of a legends KZfaq channel. Love your work Shad, keep it up!

Playing games like Resident Evil 4, Castlevania,and Bloodborne made me fall in love with this aesthetic. I’m going to visit these breathtaking structures some day 😍

Take a shot every time Shad says Buttress.

@Shadiversity: That's a beautiful building. Thanks for showing it to us.

I kinda wanna visit Australia now, that was truly amazing. I already wanted to visit New Zealand, but this sealed the deal for the both of them.

I've always thought gothic architecture just looks awesome, and I'm trying what I can to make gothic inspired medieval architecture of my own.

I don't know whether anyone pointed it out yet. I'll tell you anyway since I don't feel like checking. There is a word we use in the Catholic Church for churches (or anything for that matter) in the shape of a cross (other than crosses of course). We say "cruciform." Thank you so much for this video. I love church architecture, and I don't know much about it, so this was exciting to watch.

great vid man, very informational

All the uncovered butresses and arches in gothic architecture make the building appear sort of skeletal. It causes an impression that is very difficult to describe.

It really is cool to see how the load is distributed on those buttresses.

I wish I'd seen this sooner; I could've told you to visit the Cathedral of St John the Divine on 110th street--it's the largest Anglican cathedral in the world, built in the High Gothic style. The ceiling is 127 ft high and the nave(the bottom leg of the cross) is 230 ft long. The internal columns and buttresses are astonishing...

probably the coolest video i've seen from you, architecture is the best

I like that gothic architecture is one of those styles that is really easy to identify, especially for me. Most architectural (and other) styles, often are describes to the tune of "things of the sort that were made by people who made stuff of this style," or "things typically made in this era in this place."

And people ask themselves "how the pyramids were built" LOL.

I've been playing dark souls (original) while watching this and am approaching Anor Londo to fight Ornstein and Smaugh. I've noticed something this time. Anor Londo appears to be a beautiful rendering of a gothic cathedral.

Good video. I remember taking an Art History class and the gothic architecture was some of my favourite I'd seen. BTW, I'm not sure where I should suggest stuff about cogent, you might have said, but I've probably forgotten so I'll just say what's on my mind here. My friends and I have been playing with your system for a while now. We enjoy a lot of it; however, I personally despise the commerce points and tend to use "proper" currency with numbers and all that bull. Since that's just house rules and there's nothing to really screw up anyone who wants to do that over the commerce points it's no big deal. We were wondering in a few cases what we should roll for a sort of "will" defense. In some cases we could justify, oh, this is strength related, or this is definitely intelligence based, however, there was a point where I'd considered that maybe that was best left to a roleplay aspect, but in that case nobody wants to be the guy or gal who screws the whole party over (unless they're feeling a bit vindictive). I was wondering if you had any ideas for that sort of thing or if it's going to be handled a different way (I considered it might be some variation of a perception roll using the appropriate attributes. Alternatively it could be a matter of burning destiny points. Minding that this would mostly come up in niche situations such as torture and mind control shenanigans). Something that my step brother came up with was that points added by disabling characteristics could be more or less depending on severity, sort of like the way Shadowrun deals with that. This again is simple house ruling, but I have found that a simple destiny roll for a disabling trait for a character whom I've worked on for a while can completely ruin the character for me so this is a nice alternative. How would you deal with someone using a weapon like an axe if they've got a sword proficiency. The way I see it, they may not be trained to use that specific weapon, but the basic information isn't all that different so I figured if they've got two points in it then it'd be one point they could use for the axe. Thanks for your hard work, can't wait til 1.2 or whatever the next version will be. (also sorry if anything above has come up in one of your tabletoptime sessions, I just can't watch everything).

always wanted to know what the sub structure looks like. Foundations, catacombs, secret tunnels. etc.

Very cool TY. Question though, how do you get into the towers? The vaulted ceiling only goes so high, so there is still a room up thier but i saw no stairs.

Gorgeous place 😍

My church was built around the same time in Alabama (1860) but has more castle-like features, like crenelations. It also has a copper roof that is flatter and weighs less, so flying buttresses are not needed, but its got plenty of angled buttresses.

In the part when you entered the cathedral, the video just turned into an ASMR, and I slept 😂😂😂 "Nerd explanations ASMR" a new niche. (Of course I'm here because I'm a nerd myself, very good Video indeed)

Dude, your videos are incredible. Please get a Twitter, so people can give you shoutouts to bigger Tubers

Man, I was THERE, all the way from USA, like a month before Shad's video!

The synergy of form and function in the arched windows (what you’d typically assume as a structural weakness) actually reinforcing the structure of the cathedral as a whole, is what I find to be so appealing in gothic architecture. Truly a brilliant achievement in human engineering.

Gothic architecture was an amazing revolution and evolution in design. A few things to point out is that if one was to look at an air view, of say France during the Gothic period, each area had a cathedral to boast prosperity and condense worship. So smaller churches moved the population to the cathedral and since it was a huge financial undertaking it was a centralized building geographical in a community as well as financially boasting the patron's economic might. This economic boasting can be seen across France as the cathedrals became larger and more opulent as each one was built as an attempt to out shine the community "next door". Another fact you covered but should be point out is the openness and the immense amount of light never before seen inside. This much have a truly awe inspiring sight to people who had never seen such height and light in a building. Not only was the cross layout purposely designed. This large amount of light and the height put the congregation closer to God. The smaller windows inside the arches were needed since larger pieces of glass were hard to make and very expensive. Larger stained glass were reserved to the alcoves again due to cost and stained glass is made up of smaller components anyway. Thank you for the excellent video. Your passion is evident and enjoyable, Cheers.

Yes, I learned a thing or two in classic gothic style architecture!

I would love to have this man as a history teacher.

Man this Cathedral is absolutely magnificently beautiful inside and out

You should come visit the Cologne Cathedral. :)

Hello fellow viewers. nice seeing you again on my journey to rewatch all of Shad's videos while leaving a like and comment on them.

Nice building!

beautiful

What I remember from that video: Architectcha

I live in germany, so there are 4 cathedrals in a range of 2 hours drive, 2 are hybrid-styles from the transition between romanic and gothic styles(Mainz and Limburg), 2 are gothic cathedrals (Cologne and Strasbourg). They all are breathtakingly beautiful.

nice. cool video bro

need more vids like this - outside and showing real things

You should really come to France and Germany once

Referring to minute 19:40 "classic gothic-style architecture": If it were in continental Europe, this cathedral would not be listed as "classic gothic" (having been built from 1858 to its consecration in 1897 and finally completed in 1993). The era of gothic architecture ended almost suddenly 1490-1500, followed by the renaissance and baroque eras, in which gothic style was no longer chosen for new buildings (with very few exceptions). The gothic churches from the era of romanticism in the 19th century are referred to as "neo-gothic", or "gothic revival". It may be different in England, where gothic style never completely went out of fashion.

Did not see that ending coming👌

Great!

Good examples of buttresses and flying buttresses. The book, "The Pillars of the Earth" is a good book for explaining these building techniques. Though it's a fictional story, the book itself accurately describes Medieval architecture. I highly recommend it. There was a sequel (can't remember the name of the book) that goes further into the architecture.

Hey Shad, if you like this style check out the hungarian parliment. It will blow your mind. :3

gothic architecture is very inhospitable and these places are very pleasant to visit

Very informative. Thank you. Just a shame that the wind spoiled the sound

my favourite architecture style

Shad if you want to see some really gorgeous neo Gothic architecture, I was also suggest visiting the University of Sydney.

I hope the next time you do a video outdoors you can do something about that wind, though. some times it was really horrible. come one guess. support the patreon so he can buy a mike with a fuzzy cat thingy.

omg I went there a couple of months ago it is very pretty

The lantern next to the entrance is LED. 4:10

11:47 The biggest tower is shaking fiercely. Is there a shock absorber or something in it?

There is a smaller but similar style church in my area. I wonder if it has a similar design.

Stumbled upon this church by accident in my hollidays. Funny seeing it here!

I would like to invite you to visit Prague, Czech Republic. We have some Proper Gothic architecture in here.

We really need an architectural revolution. Modern architecture is so soulless and boring. It's just cold steel and sterile glass with silly swoops and curves. It looks like melting styrofoam.

Did you know that even those 'spikes' you mentioned (pinnacles) have a function too? It's supposed to add more weight above the point where the flying butressess meet, again to direct forces downward

The entrance of the church is the narthex. Churches are oriented with the altar to the east so the main narthex is in the west. Upon entering, you enter the nave, which is the longest part of the cruciform shape and is meant for the regular people. What you are calling the outer walls are called the north and south aisles. The part where the big tower is, is called "the crossing" and the arms of the cruciform shape are called transepts and have a door in the northern transept, and sometimes also the southern. Past the crossing, you find the choir, or quire, as well as the high altar which is obviously for the clerics. The aisle that goes around and behind that is called the ambulatory.

Can’t deny that. the 8th doctors Tardis was kick ass.

Belle architecture merci

I know that it is a bit late but anyway: Gothic times were from 12th to early 16th century. This one is from 19th century, but it uses the gothic architecture, so it is Gothic revival architecture. And from Shad's explenation it looks like there is a gothic architecture and a castle architecture... But there are gothic castles... a lot of them. Gothic architecture is typical for its catedrals, etc... but it also includes castles, even though they don't share the same elements of architecture it still is a gothic architecture. I hope I got it right, mabe i didn't :) Anyway, cool video. It is awesome to see people like you, who care about history and things that our ancestors left us. I feel like the society is starting to forget the important things... :)

beautoful i love it

Are you by any chance a European history major? Or just an enthusiast? I love your videos, as c. 900 - 1500 CE is also my favorite time period in history.