Notes and sketches of an architect taken during a journey in the northwest of Europe; (1877)
Narjoux, Félix, Peto, John Frederick, 1854-1907 · Boston, J. R. Osgood · leaf 33
of woodindented together, thus forming a rigid system, but possessingsufficient elasticity to yield without breaking,-and without los-ing their shape in consequence of the movements communicatedto the whole building by an unstable soil. 28 HOLLAND. Constructions of this kind are very frequent in… … Fig. 3. — Interior of the Groote-Kerk. architects to make use of those materials which, at the timewhen the churches were erected, were found abundantly in thecountry, then covered with forests which have since disappeared.It is true that a fire — and they are frequent here — would soonhave…
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