h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Much later on, towards the end of the Medievil period, a new, alternative architecture surfaced. This new approach on the layout and asthetics of buildings was viewed as being controverstial, and like all things that go against the main stream, the architecture movement was shunned, and labelled as being unsophisicated and barbaric, which in turn lead to it being known as Gothic Architecture."

This is not correct. Gothic was not a "new, alternative architecture" which was not accepted. The style of architecture now known as gothic was only so named *after* it fell out of fashion. It was not viewed as being barbaric at the time, only afterwards when classical architecture became the accepted norm. Classical architecture is based on the Roman style, and since the Goths were partly responsible for the downfall of the Roman empire, the non-classical, and therefore un-civilised style was named *restrospectively* as "gothic."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_architecture

hmmm good point.