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 178
162 VAULTS. design and certain artifices such as, for example, transverse arches buried in the reversed concavities of the roof, as we have repre- sented in A B C, upon the design illustrating the extrados of the vault.1 Thus, by a series of deductions indeed very logical, the Anglo- … A Fig. 726. Norman builders passed from the dome to the strange vaults com- posed of the intersections of curvilinear cones, and separated entirely from the French system. In Normandy these vaults were never adopted, but of the Eng- lish influence something remained. In that province they often…
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