Travel to France: Paris 1: Gothic: Photo 36
The east end with its famous buttresses. Despite the common assertion that they resist the outward thrust of the nave walls, Ayers insists that they actually were built to carry away the rainwater that would overwise damage the roof of the aisles. "Thus Notre-dame's quintessentially Gothic external appearance, cadenced by slender, soaring arcs, actually has nothing whatever to do with the Gothic structural system so admired by Structural Rationalists of the last two centuries!" (p. 82).
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