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And similar tensions in the rear facade of Mt. Vernon result from the contrast of the severe pedimented envelope and the irregular window positions.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 75.

In the side facade of Hawksrnoor's Easton Neston, the windows are positioned by particular interior requirements in defiance of its horizontal order.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 75.

Crowded intricacy within a rigid frame has been a pervasive idea. It exists in such diverse examples as a fantasy of Piranesi and the composition of a Michelangelo niche.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 75.

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