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 87
71 CONSTRUCTION. cut-stone. As far as possible, the greater part of the stones then used to form facings or voussoirs of archivolts, transverse and pointed arches, are in pieces small enough to be carried upon a man's back, and laid by a mason like our ordinary stones. The method once adopted, this… … joints of thick mortar Fig. 306. Fig. 30. (from 0.01 to 0.02 c), in order that these beds might form a link between the interior masonry and the facing. This method was the Roman method, and it is a good one. The reader will understand, in fact, that if (Fig. 30) these courses are laid without…
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