How to build a house
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- an architectural novelette
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
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1. HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE.2. TRANSLATOR’S NOTE.3. CHAPTER I. PAUL GETS AN IDEA.4. CHAPTER II. WITH A LITTLE HELP, PAUL’S IDEA IS DEVELOPED.5. CHAPTER III. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.6. CHAPTER IV. PAUL’S IDEAS RESPECTING ART, AND HOW THEY WERE MODIFIED.7. CHAPTER V. PAUL PURSUES A COURSE OF STUDY IN PRACTICAL ARCHITECTURE.8. CHAPTER VI. HOW PAUL IS LED TO RECOGNIZE CERTAIN DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN ETHICS AND ARCHITECTURE.9. CHAPTER VII. SETTING OUT THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE HOUSE, AND OPERATIONS ON THE GROUND.10. CHAPTER VIII. PAUL REFLECTS.11. CHAPTER IX. PAUL, CLERK OF THE WORKS.12. CHAPTER X. PAUL BEGINS TO UNDERSTAND.13. CHAPTER XI. THE BUILDING IN ELEVATION.14. CHAPTER XII. OBSERVATIONS ADDRESSED TO EUGÈNE BY PAUL, AND THE REPLIES MADE TO THEM.15. CHAPTER XIII. THE VISIT TO THE BUILDING.16. CHAPTER XIV. PAUL FEELS THE NECESSITY OF IMPROVING HIMSELF IN THE ART OF DRAWING.17. CHAPTER XV. CONSIDERATION OF THE STAIRCASES.18. CHAPTER XVI. THE CRITIC.19. CHAPTER XVII. PAUL INQUIRES WHAT ARCHITECTURE IS.20. CHAPTER XVIII. THEORETICAL STUDIES.21. CHAPTER XIX. THEORETICAL STUDIES—Continued.22. CHAPTER XX. STUDIES INTERRUPTED.23. CHAPTER XXI. BUILDING RECOMMENCED—THE TIMBER WORK.24. CHAPTER XXII. THE CHIMNEYS.25. CHAPTER XXIII. THE CANTINE.26. CHAPTER XXIV. THE JOINER’S WORK.27. CHAPTER XXV. WHAT PAUL LEARNT AT CHATEAUROUX.28. CHAPTER XXVI. THE SLATING AND PLUMBING.29. CHAPTER XXVII. ORDER IN FINISHING THE WORK.30. CHAPTER XXVIII. THE HOUSE-WARMING.31. EXPLANATION OF SOME OF THE TECHNICAL TERMS USED IN THIS BOOK.