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The pavilions which flanked the chateau at Marly contained a similar paradox. The compositional duality of their two-bay facades lacks unity, but reinforces the unity of the whole complex. Their own incompleteness implied the dominance of the chateau itself and the completeness of the whole.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 32.

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