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 264
248 DEVELOPMENTS {THIRTEENTH CENTURY). applied everywhere with that rigorous logic which characterizes ar- chitecture at the end of the thirteenth century.1 … Fig. I 05. Outer Open-work of Gallery, St. Urbain, Troyes. 1 How does it happen that we, who to-day have cast-iron, or can procure stones of excellent quality and in large pieces, have not thought of putting into prac- tice the method so happily applied in the building of the church of St. Urbain?…
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