Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 226
method, and have left one example, the Mausoleum of Theodoric at Ravenna, which has a domed roof formed of a single stone nearly 35 feet in diameter, — a size which makes us think meanly of this century's masonry. The Greeks also used wooden beams as roof supports, which have almost entirely… … Fig. 1. Their temples seem to indicate a very ingenious mode of lighting the interior without impairing the harmony of the ex- terior, which might teach a lesson to some of the builders of our older office blocks. The inside of a Greek temple contained nothing but a statue of the patron god, upon…
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