ABSTRACT
He then goes on to argue that the components of the vaults were in all likelihood precut or prefabricated before being installed by the masons. e extraordinary eect at Westminster can be described as the union between “construing” and “constructing” or the production of discourse and the act of building through the agency of the detail.3 Details and by extension joints have been described by Frascari
as the minimum units of signication in the architectural production of meanings. ese units have been singled out in spatial cells or in elements of composition, in modules or in measures, in the alternating of solid and void, or in the relationship between inside and outside.
