Colmar’s Unterlinden Museum: Late-Gothic Cloister Vaulting and Japanese Buddhist Temple Spatial Layouts in Alsace Colmar’s Unterlinden Museum occupies a Dominican convent founded in 1232, and its Gothic cloister is often described as the most complete in Alsace. In the same century, Zen monasteries in Kamakura, Japan, were arranging their halls […]
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Monastic Masonry and Cistercian Hydraulics: The Ruined Architecture of the Ribble Basin Two Cistercian abbeys—Sawley, founded 1147, and Whalley, established 1296 after migrating from flood-prone Stanlaw in Cheshire—occupied the Ribble Basin within nine miles of each other, their proximity the source of prolonged legal dispute over grain and fishing rights. […]
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