Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : Ticknor and Co. · leaf 73
re but twosystems of structure,—passive, inert structvue, and equilibratedstructure. More than ever we are being led to the adoption ofthe latter only, both on account of the nature of the materialsused, and from reasons of economy, which are becoming increas-ingly imperative. The architects of the… … Fig. 1.—Mediaeval method for the support of a Projecting Galler} on Stone Corbels 56 LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE. queutly adopted in the civil edifices of the Middle Ages, andwhich presents certam advantages. In those times, buildingswere seldom erected of double thickness ; each block of…
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