Drawing and understanding Gothic architecture in the first half of XIX- century England

This paper will show how in the first half of the 19th-century, scholars of Gothic architecture in England were aware of the difficulty of dealing with unfamiliar architecture forms and principles with cultural and mental schemas adapted to another formal language such as classical was. Then through three significant cases (T. Rickman, R. Willis, F.A. Paley) it will be explored how those pioneering first authors faced this problem, creating a new mental scheme through attentive observation and drawing.