The name of the master mason who constructed the abbey of St. Denis-the first building ever raised in the Gothic style--remains unrecorded and the the three masons responsible for the ill-fated cathedral at Beauvais are known in the documents simply as the First Master, the Second Master, and the Third Master.
It's a quick read. Only taking about weekend. And fairly easy to grasp, despite some of the rambling descriptions of the mechanical innovations, which I never did get anyway.