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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 331

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I I c LECTURE XVII. 283 supports which we shall have to notice in connection with the con-struction of houses, we should realise considerable savings if wereckon by the system now generally adopted in buildings of thiskind,—a system which is somewhat obsolete, and little in harmonywith the… … Pio. 7.—Design for a Modern French Town Mansion.—Section through the Dining-room. For our architects, not satisfied with imitating merely theexteriors of former centuries, copy also their method of construc-tion, which presents no advantage, and does not harmonise withthe comphcated requu-ements…

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