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Discourses on architecture (1875)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 261

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a Roman room or basilica, witli a nave and two aisles, covered by awooden roof. When the Romanesque architects desired to replacetliis roof by a vault, they gave, as in B, greater thickness botli to thedetached piers witliin and to the longitudinal walls. But thèse pré-cautions were found to be…

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