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Discourses on architecture (1875)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : Ticknor and Co. · leaf 102

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f the stones, especially in the case oflarge buildings, were completely specified by the architect whengiving the plans to the builder, the latter might order a greatpart of his stone from the quarries cut to shape, and thus wouldnot be oljhged to rent and occupy such large yard-spaces. Itwould be… … Fig. 13.—Combined Iron and Masonry Construction.—Details of the Iron-work. LECTURE XII. 83 methods were adopted whicli would obviate the necessity ofhaving on the ground a stock of materials in the rough,—if theparts of these slight structures came from a manufactory readyto be fixed,—a still…

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