Excerpt from Rational Building: Being a Translation of the Article "Construction" In the Dictionnaire Raisonne De L'architecture Francaise of M. Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc
While preparing drawings for a large Cathedral Church in New York City, the article "Construction" of the "Dictionnaire Raisonne" was freely used and then the idea was conceived of translating it into English.
It has been appearing from time to time in the pages of a prominent architectural journal. Strange as it may seem, this section, which is as valuable as any in the dictionary to architects, archaeologists and general readers, has never before been completely translated into English, although often attempted.
Great care has been exercised to obtain nice distinctions of meaning; the full force of the French idiom has been seized upon, and the endeavor has been to make this work appear as little like a bald technical translation as was consistent with the incisively keen remarks of the gifted author.
Eugene-Emmauuel Viollet-le Due was an architect and was born in Paris the 27th day of January, 1814.
He first studied architecture under Leclere, and became particularly interested in Gothic architecture, the serious study of which he pursued under the triple aspect of civil, religious and military constructions.
He also delved among the ruins of Greek and Roman art in Italy and Sicily, notably at Rome and at Taormina.
Afterward he visited the South of France, and made drawings of the principal monuments at Carcassonne, at Sens and at Toulouse.
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