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Pieter Broucke
CommentatorPieter Broucke is the Director of the Arts at Middlebury College. A native of Belgium, he trained as an architect and architectural historian.
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The impressive-looking flying buttresses of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris are still standing – now seen by many as symbols of strength and…