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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 31, Number 3, pages 279-295 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2020_3_279

GENERATIVE INTERPRETATIONS OF LATE GOTHIC ARCHITECTURAL FORMS

Zoltán Bereczki^*

^* Department of Civil Engineering, University of Debrecen, 2–4 Ótemető Street, Debrecen, 4028, Hungary
E-mail: bereczki.zoltan@eng.unideb.hu; https://epito.unideb.hu/hu/dr-bereczki-zoltan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0707-1621

Abstract: The current study, as an introductory concept of the generative nature of late Gothic architecture and its elements, considers the issue of the system and the order of the structures. In contrast to High Gothic – a system based on relatively simple geometric and arithmetic relations – the articulation of late Gothic can appear to be disordered. The focus of this research is not on the physical construction of the building forms, but on their underlying generative principles. It is an underpinning of this study that if something can be generated by algorithms, it indisputably has a system, even if it is not visible in the result. The current paper presents the analysis of relations of the different building parts of late Gothic towers, creates interpretive generative algorithmic models, and experiments with them.

Keywords: late Gothic, interpretive generative algorithmic models, tangled hierarchies, 3D

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