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 237
221 CONSTRUCTION. powerful flying-buttresses, a greater resistance. But had the archi- tect given greater diameter to the piers A than to the piers B (Fig. 92), these pillars A would still have been compressed by the very heavy weight that they had to support and their settling would have… … Fig. 93. Aisle Pillar, Notre Dame, the Central Column A (FiS' 92)« . Pans' The method of laying the materials (stones) either upon their natural bed, or perpendicularly to it, was rapidly improved during the first half of the thirteenth century. In this, there was, in fact, a means to which we, who…
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