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 64
48 ORIGIN OF THE POINTED ARCH. The real ogival arches, it may be said in passing (for thus the diagonal arches are named), are, then, full-centered, which indi- cates clearly enough that the word ogival is not appropriate for the … Fig. 21. broken arch. But this is not the moment to discuss these words (see "Ogive "), and our remark is made here only to point out one of the numerous errors upon which people ^ rely, to judge of an art with which they are but slightly acquainted. The broken arch had been adopted by the last…
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