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The ghost of Dock Street in Philadelphia's Society Hill, however, is a meaningless vestige rather than a working element resulting from a valid transition between the old and the new.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 44.

In the project for a gateway at Bourneville by Ledoux , the columns in the arch are structurally rhetorical if not redundant. Expressively, however, they underscore the abstractness of the opening as a semicircle more than an arch, and they further define the opening as a gateway.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 44-5.

As I have said, the stairway at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by Furness is too big in its immediate context, but appropriate as a gesture towards the outside scale and a sense of entry. The Classical portico is a rhetorical entrance. The stairs, columns, and pediment are juxtaposed upon the other-scale, real entrance behind.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 45.

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