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 347
CONSTRUCTION. 331 architects. There was no seigneur who did not wish to have a degre more elegant and better designed than that of his neighbor and, in fact, the little that remains to us of these indispensable accessories of chateaux always indicates a certain pretension as well as great ability… … Fig. 140. For the more modest dwellings of townspeople as well, the con- struction becomes during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, lighter, more studied. It is then that they commence to want very large windows on the public highway, still more necessary because the streets were narrow ;…
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