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 165
omanesque traditions, which were worn out and which the people rejected as insufficient for their needs and as the living expression of that monastic power against which the national spirit was rising. The schools that were submissive to the dome made a first conces- sion to the new mode of… … key. Figure 63 will explain this arrangement.1 This construction was less rational than that of the northern vault, but it gave the same section; that is to say, from A, the key of the transverse or wall arches, to B, the key of the diagonal arches, the triangular fillings A B C form a re-entrant…
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