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 169
153 CONSTRUCTION. in France upon two diagonal and four wall-arches of the same dimen- sions and shape, the rows of filling-stones are arranged according to the drawing H. Then, although the principal ribs of vaults in France and in Eng- land may be identical in outline, in France the filling is… … joining provinces, at the end of the twelfth century, they were making only vaults with diagonal arches, crossed by transverse arches, or, in other words, al way s engendered by a square plan and closed by sloping spandrel filling, as seen in Figure 55, they were seeking in the West to obtain the…
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