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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 407

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EIGHTH DISCOURSE. ON THE CAUSES OF THE DECLINE OF AR( HITECTIRE.—0\ SOJÎE OF THE PRIXCIPLES OFARCHITECTURAL C03IP0SITI0N. — ON TKE RENAISSANCE IN THE WEST AND ESPECIALLYIN FRANCE. … ^y^^^^^^^^S architecture is almost as mucli a science as an art,reason and caiculation entering iargely mto itsconceptions, it follows tliat architectural compo-sition is not only a labor of imagination, but issnbject to certain fixed rules which must bemethodically apphed, and to certain…

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