10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLYING BUTTRESS»
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flying buttress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
flying buttress and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gothic Architecture in England: An Analysis of the Origin & ...
Part I. The Flying Buttress. Definition — Need, Value, and Origin of the Flying
Buttress — Internal and External Flying Buttresses — Substitutes — Curve,
Inclination, Mass, and Spring of Flying Buttress — Clerestory Buttress — Pinnacle
...
2
The Architectural Theory of Viollet-le-Duc: Readings and ...
2.9); he loads heavily the summit of the flying buttress at A; he slopes the coping
BC so as to make it tangent to the extrados of the arch; then he brings the rear
surface of the pinnacle D over to the point E out of the vertical of the wall F, so
that ...
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Millard Fillmore Hearn, 1990
The thrust of the vault is led down obliquely by the flying buttress, which acts as a
bridge or a channel of forces, on to the outer buttress, which must project
sufticiently at its base not to fall outwards. The aesthetic impression is powerful
enough ...
Paul Frankl, Paul Crossley, 2000
set perpendicular to that wall; and the flyers, the arch (or arches) that rise from the
upright pier to abut the clerestory wall to be braced. The flying buttress is the last
major structural device created in the period. In this two-part form it appeared c.
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French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries
In its simplest form, as a single quadrant arch rising above the lateral roofs to
hold the building at a higher level, the exterior flying buttress had been known
already for some twenty years (Figs. 174-176, p. 181), although it had never been
...
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American Architect and Architecture
as ceiling. The other two columns are set between this lintel-course and the top of
the flying-buttress, which rests against an enormous block M of stone, weighted
by a course, as cornice, and a pedestal N supporting a colossal statue. Another ...
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A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the ...
2] : the lower buttress is octagonal, covered with panelling, and surmounted by a
crocketed pinnacle, whilst the flying buttress is adorned with tracery, ribs, and
openings between them ; No. 5 is a singular specimen of the flying buttress, with
...
John Britton, John Le Keux, 1838
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Manual of Gothic construction
Isolated columns beneath the flying buttress. Yet where the thickness which the.
wall resting on the window arches receives by that tunnel vault exceeds the
necessity of the necessary stiffness (p. 338) requires in the upper thickness of the
hall ...
Georg G. Ungewitter, N. Clifford Ricker
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The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval ...
The transfer of stress was achieved by the third component we associate with the
Gothic design, the flying buttress. Romanesque churches used “quadrant arches”
(quarter-circles) to buttress the pressure, or thrust, generated by their high ...
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Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Architectural Plans, ...
A flying buttress with massive base. A double flying buttress. A double flying
buttress with elaborated outer buttress. A double flying buttress with lateral
buttresses on the outer one. Double flying buttresses with two outer buttresses.
Double ...
John Theodore Haneman, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLYING BUTTRESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
flying buttress is used in the context of the following news items.
Running up that hill | The Sunday Times
As Alps go, it's not enormous — a flying buttress on the side of the Mont Blanc massif — but right now I'm down at 1,000 metres. Le Signal tops ... «The Sunday Times, Jul 15»
Maison Margiela Couture Fall 2015
There were signature flights of fancy in a green coat with a giant flying buttress collar, the bride in swirls of taffeta and thick pillow rolls of what ... «WWD, Jul 15»
Under the skin of the new McLaren 570S
This one is dramatic enough, featuring rear bodywork that's shrink-wrapped over the engine bay, a flying buttress arrangement on the C-pillars ... «Autocar, Jul 15»
a la Fiorina
... the groundbreaking inventions of the Gothic arch and flying buttress in northern (Christian) Europe. Meanwhile, the Muslims also adopted the ... «The Jewish Press, Jun 15»
Pop culture pro interprets inventions
In sifting through 3,000 years of history, the author moves from the invention of the chariot, the flying buttress, and movable type to the Kodak ... «The Salinas Californian, Jun 15»
Spied: 2016 Honda Ridgeline
... Honda's next mid-size pickup with adopt a conventionally shaped crew cab rather than the flying buttress look used on the original Ridgeline. «LeftLane News, Jun 15»
Shared Commitments
Rather like Winston Churchill, who compared himself to a “flying buttress” of the church, supporting it “from the outside,” Whitlam—wittily ... «Commonweal, Jun 15»
Calgary Icons: Vetro, Sasso, Alura and Nuera
STATEMENT: The flying buttress structures and finials on the upper stories of Sasso and Vetro were built using massive horizontal steel beams, ... «Calgary Herald, May 15»
Logan Barber breaches The Firewall at Liming, the hardest trad …
Located in an amazing position perched high above the little town, the route in question is actually the third pitch of The Flying Buttress, a route ... «Planetmountain, May 15»
Miles ahead? Long-term 2015 Chrysler 200S intro
The flying buttress center console, a Volvo staple, looks natural in the 200. Here, it gives the cabin a clear, cockpit-like look. We wonder if we'll ... «Autoweek, May 15»
