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 146
gure indicates. We project the transverse arch, E F, which gives us the diagonal arch E G F ; we project the diagonal arch E L which gives us the slightly broken arch E H I; we project the diagonal arch K L, which gives us the semicircle KL M ; and lastly project the trans- verse arch P N, drawing… … projected in P 0 N. It Fig. 49. is this need of avoiding abrupt changes of level in the different arches which has made us raise somewhat the key of the diagonal arch E I above the semicircular. It is seen thus that from the great transverse arch included between the pier B and the wall the keys R,…
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