Rational building; being a translation of the article "Construction" in the Dictionnaire raisonne ́de l'architecture française of Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc; (1895)
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 108
92 VAULTS. bent more or less at the height of the thrust of the lower vaults. But we shall have occasion to return later to this subject. This first point having been cleared up, let us come now to the details of the execution ; for this is necessary. Gothic construction proceeds (if we are… … Fig. 34. from an organic system much more complicated than that of the Roman construction. " So much the worse," say some, " it is a mark of inferiority." " So much the better," say others, " it is a proof of progress." Progress or decadence, it is a fact that we must recognize and study. Already,…
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