Le monument circulaire du plateau de l'Odéon à Carthage : précisions sur la conception et la géométrie d'un parti original
Gilbert Hallier
The ground-plan of the « circular monument » at Carthage, explained as a memoria, seems to be arranged from drawing rotating squares », established since Adrian, still used in paleochristian buildings with centred draft, and handed down by carolingian Renaissance masters masons mediaeval lodges. sketch is well connected Santa Costanza mausoleum's one, architect what could have worked out for Carthaginian responsibles, likely mediation elder daughter emperor Constantin, during her mystical parenthetical widowhood, between 337 35 1 . Lack skilled professionals on site, plan carrying was drawn up builder's yard managed dilettante working master, unacquainted elementary rules vaulting's statics ; building no sooner erected than doomed an ineluctable collapse.
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