Transactions of the Institute of British Architects of London
A transactions volume issued in London in 1835 by the Royal Institute of British Architects, drawn from the Getty Research Institute's copy and aimed at architects and students of building. The plates show Gothic masonry studied through measured drawings: a ribbed vault springing from a clustered pier, a plan of intersecting vault ribs, and a moulded window or door jamb in section. A designer could take the stone-by-stone layering of voussoirs and the radiating tracery geometry as ready-made structural patterns.
