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 277
261 CONSTR UCTION. of the thrusts, their direction and their force ; he estimated the weights and reduced the pressures and the resistances to their most exact limits. He knew all this beforehand and he must have known it from the time when the first course was placed above ground. His conception… … Fig. I 09. Choir and Transept of St. Nazaire, Carcassonne. the design of the pier A, repeated twice ; this is the design of the buttress C, repeated ten times, etc.; here is the drawing of the win- dow A, repeated six times and of the window B, repeated seven times ; here is a branch of a diagonal…
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