At the one year anniversary of the Notre Dame fire, Jorge Otero-Pailos, director of GSAPP’s Historic Preservation Program, speaks about the future of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris with Lindsay Cook, faculty at Vassar College where she teaches medieval art and architecture. Her research focuses on the intersection of medieval architectural and institutional history in Paris and its environs, particularly centered on Notre-Dame of Paris.
They discuss the long history of the cathedral and Cook’s English translation of “Notre Dame Cathedral: Nine Centuries of History” by Dany Sandron and Andrew Tallon. The book includes numerous visualizations of Notre Dame throughout the years to illustrate the different stages of the building’s construction.
“It’s easy to look at the cathedral today and see it as a unified, fixed entity, but it really was never that way throughout the Premodern Period. Underneath each of the visual reconstructions [in the book] is a 3D laser scan that was made of the building in 2010. The other images are created using texture overlaying on top of the laser scan data, peeling back the layers of time and showing moments where we know something about what the cathedral looked like.” – Lindsay Cook
Source by Columbia GSAPP
