Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 270
LECTURES ON [LECTURE XVI, 240 should be limited to the least usual and, for most pur- poses, the least convenient form of apartment. We are happily as far as possible from being left in this dilemma. A very simple application of geometrical thought opened a way by which almost any reasonable form… … Fig. 406. where they meet it, and, if strong enough, will carry the portion of the dome remaining between them. If, again, instead of arches, you sup- pose the dome intersected on the lines of the inscribed square by vaults at right angles to those sides, the result will be the same. In the first…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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