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This new type of
architecture Suger created is called Gothic. Its primary
characteristics are flying buttresses, high vaulted ceilings, and
stained glass windows.
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What Suger actually did, was turn the architecture insideout by placing
the skeleton of the building on the outside. Now that the lines of
thrust were moved away from the walls, the walls could be much thinner
because they did not have to hold up the building. They could have
windows as well. Suger could build his churches much taller than
they had ever been before. On exceptionally large churches, the
buttresses could be propped up with other buttresses, as in the diagram
below.
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