The original Gothic style was actually developed to bring sunshine into people's lives, and especially into their churches. As with many art historical terms, “Gothic” came to be applied to a certain architectural style after the fact. The Gothic grew out of the Romanesque architectural style, when both prosperity and relative peace allowed for several centuries of cultural development and great building schemes. Gothic architecture have the distribution particularly in France. One of the characteristics of gothic architecture was its height. Gothic at the technical level Gothic architecture is characterized by the ribbed vault. These features were all present in Romanesque buildings. The characteristics of Gothic Architecture attempt to spread the weight of heavy stone walls. Building techniques (such as the flying buttress, detailed below) spread the weight of taller walls and loftier towers. This all meant that gothic buildings could scale heights. The Gothic style the general of elaborate stone window tracery.
This style was characterized by the application of increasingly elaborate geometrical decoration to the structural forms that had been established. Skilled use of the pointed arch and the ribbed vault made it possible to cover far more elaborate and complicated. Skilled use of buttressing, especially of flying buttresses, made it possible to build taller buildings and to open up the intervening wall spaces to create larger windows. The application of increasingly elaborate geometric decoration to the structural forms that had was founded during the preceding century. The style Gothic Architecture was technically a simple one. It did not primarily on engineering expertise or on sensitivity in the handling of architectural volumes. But on the manipulation of geometric shapes normally in two dimensions. Gothic sculpture was used to decorate of cathedrals and other religious buildings. One of the earliest buildings in which these techniques were introduced in highly sophisticated architectural was the abbey of Saint-Denis Paris.