Rational building; being a translation of the article "Construction" in the Dictionnaire raisonne ́de l'architecture française of Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc;
Viollet-le-Duc's 1895 English translation of his article on construction from the Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française, published in New York by Macmillan as a technical treatise on building for architects and students. Its pictures are measured architectural line drawings of Gothic arches, buttresses, wall sections and a ribbed vault, drawn in clean black outline on pale paper, offering a designer structural diagrams of how load travels through masonry.
