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From the outside, the space within a space can become the thing behind a thing. The enormous clerestory of Wollaton Hall reads as a big-scale thing behind a smaller-scale thing.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 75.

In S. Maria della Pace the superimposition of enclosing elements, which are successively convex, perpendicular, and then concave, become contrasting things behind things to work transitions between the outside and the inside.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 75.

Essentially, Le Corbusier's plan of the Villa Savoye exemplifies crowded intricacies within a rigid frame.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 75.

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