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 365
349 CONSTRUCTION. edges of the stone are sharp, without spawls and their rough faces frequently form projecting bosses so as to mask the position of the beds and joints (148). It was, in fact, difficult to force the joints of stones thus faced, either by sapping, by battering rams or any of the… … Fig. 148. and affectation, it was not the same with military constructions ; the architects came back to simpler designs, to a more homogeneous system of construction. At every step we are thus obliged to come to a stop in the study of the art of building of the artists of the Middle Ages and to…
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