羅馬帝國覆亡開始至文藝復興這一段約近一千年的西歐中世紀歷史，其中「仿羅馬」與「哥德」兩種風格為這段時期的藝術代表風格。這兩種藝術風格主要是指教堂的建築，而不是指繪畫與雕刻，因為繪畫與雕刻開始時只是服務建築的，是附屬於建築的。哥德藝術最具代表性的就是「大教堂」的建築，故哥德時期又被史家稱之為「大教堂時代」。大教堂的建築是信徒唯一可以榮耀上帝的方法，大教堂是神居住的殿堂，百姓信仰的庇護所。欲了解哥德大教堂建築，那麼對大教堂的平面佈局和大教堂的細部結構的了解是必須的。本文從哥德建築之起源、哥德大教堂的平面配置的佈局與功能、哥德大教堂建築外部與內部的細部結構名稱及功能...等，進行探討與分析。
Since the end of the Rome Empire to the Renaissance, both Romanesque and Gotique styles represented the major art styles almost one thousand years of the middle age history in Western Europe. Both art styles mainly represent church buildings. However, please notice, they do not represent paintings or sculptures for paintings and sculptures only append to buildings for decorating. The symbolic of Gotique style is the Cathedrale. Hence, the Gotique period was called Cathedrale age by historians. The Cathedrale buildings was the only way to glory the god by its believers during in that period. Cathedrale was the god's saint temple and refugee of believer's faith. In order to understand Cathedrale buildings, it needs to understand the building layout and its details structure designs. This article is discussed from Gotique's building layout and its functions. The functionals for church's interiors and exteriors with is detail architecture's names and functions.
