How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 166
ers and ties in the construction of the vault. In theGothic, with its nervous, pointed arches, the bays werecross-vaulted, with ribs crossing diagonally from the capof the supporting piers, so as to accentuate the idea offull support by the piers or grouped columns. All of these main… … HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE introduction of great windows. The load of the roof beingdistributed to the buttresses by the arching and groining,the intermediate walls were no longer required for sup-port, and were cut into largely. The front—to the west—of the Gothic churches is di-vided vertically…
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