In a like manner the design is predicated on a sincere faith of the pre-eminence of form over function, again a reference more closely aligned with Palladio’s singular and perfectly rendered object within a landscape, rather than the 18th century Irish country houses it evokes. These historic houses also drew on much the same ideology, resulting in constructions such as the striking Woodlands House, County Dublin with its perfect 42-foot square cubic form 3 which is undoubtedly the reason for the apparent equivalence. However de Paor extends the thinking to a more extreme position beyond the obvious steadfast foursquare form with its Georgian scale apertures, to the replication of an identical façade in every orientation [fig3] thus denying the complexity of the plan within [fig4].
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