Sunday, November 3, 2013

The Irish reluctance to build the arches.



Patrick McAfee and I were talking about this very old bridge in Dingle Ireland a while back and we remarked at how the opening begins as corbeling and then switches part way up to be built more like a true arch . He said he thought it demonstrated the deep inherent mistrust the Irish had for the roman arch when it came along. They much preferred to keep using lintels and corbeling in their architecture.