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To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. The essential argument still stands, but this version offers an improved reconstruction of Villard's hydraulic saw, and an addendum that offers a detailed response to the recent assertions of Jean Wirth that attempt to resurrect Villard's credentials as an architect. Construction is the architect's mother tongue; the architect is a poet who thinks and speaks in construction.

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Clark and Carl F. Barnes, Jr. Clark's body of scholarship embraces Gothic architecture in its manifold complexity, setting it within the large-scale context of the contemporary intellectual landscape, sorting out construction histories, or extracting the manifestation of historical memory from form and materials. Nicola Coldstream's scholarship and comments have been continual sources of insight.

Nancy Wu shared her knowledge of the design and construction history of Reims and collaborating with Stefaan Van Liefferinge on Clermont has stimulated my thinking about the cathedral and the skill of its designer. Finally, thanks to Mailan Doquang for her work and photographs on the chantry chapels of Notre-Dame, Paris.

The structure is described in detail and the historical evidence reexamined , suggesting a scenario for its construction.