TFG Events & Workshops

Lindsay Cook

Pennsylvania State University, Assistant Professor

Dr. Lindsay Cook is Assistant Teaching Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Art History at Penn State University. An architectural historian, medievalist, digital humanist, translator, and digital preservation advocate, her current research addresses architectural and artistic responses to the Gothic cathedral Notre-Dame of Paris and digital and material approaches to the valorization, conservation, and restoration of cultural heritage. She is the translator of Notre Dame Cathedral: Nine Centuries of History (Penn State, 2020), and her writing about the history of Notre-Dame has recently appeared in the journals Future Anterior and Different Visions and the edited volume The Analysis of Gothic Architecture (Brill, 2023).

www.lindsayscook.com

Presentation

The Roofs & Spires of Notre-Dame of Paris
The 2019 Notre-Dame fire laid bare vast quantities of oak, a building material ubiquitous in medieval Europe, yet sometimes concealed from view. In this keynote session, architectural historian Dr. Lindsay Cook will sketch the history of the successive timber-framed roofs and spires of the Gothic cathedral Notre-Dame of Paris. The talk will begin with the twelfth-century trusses of the first roof over the Gothic cathedral's choir and conclude with the structure and ornament of the roof and spire rebuilt entirely since the recent disastrous fire—thanks, in part, to several Timber Framers Guild members.