In the past bent rooms were mostly residual spaces complementing some rotund, perfect, absolute and central main spaces but there are always exceptions. The portico of the Pallazzo Massine alle Colonne is one such beautiful bent space, but it was only much later that I found out about such things, for I was brought up in a poor house - a Modern Movement School and it was only afterwards, when I was finished, that I taught myself all sorts of other architectures.

Wright also comes into this book but at a later stage for both of us. After the war Wright went about furiously designing bent buildings and managed to build a few.