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 134
118 VAULTS. … Figs. 46 and 466. vaulted edifices, and governing the size, form, and arrangement of the supports, it is this that we ought scrupulously to study first. For one who understands clearly the structure of the Gothic
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