Discourses on Architecture
work by Viollet-le-Duc
Also known as: “Entretiens sur l’architecture”
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discussed in biography
- In Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Translated into English as Discourses on Architecture (1875), this work, containing information on the construction of iron skeletons enclosed by nonbearing masonry walls, especially influenced the late-19th-century architects of the Chicago school, particularly John W. Root. Other important writings by Viollet-le-Duc include L’Art russe (1877; “Russian Art”) and De…
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