How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 112
e Chris-tians, the only thing he had to offer them for a place ofmeeting, short of a circus, was one of these basilicas.There, accordingly, the first services were held, and whenone building was outgrown others were added. Con-stantine himself must have continued to take an interestin the Roman… … HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE buildings, for we find few departures from type in thisand all the other early basilican churches, as they arecalled. The churches were covered with wooden roofs,with the trusses, purlins, and rafters showing. Severalof the features of the basilicas are fundamental forms…
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