Besides circumstantial distortion, there are other techniques of adaptation. The expedient device is an element in all anonymous architecture that is dependent on a strong conventional order. It is used to adjust the order to circumstances which are contradictory to it: such circumstances are often topographical. The bracket on the house at Domegge (67) is a device that expedites the tense transition
from symmetrical faqade to symmetrical gable and at the same time accommodates the asymmetrical overhang on the right side. A vivid play of order and the circumstantial is, in fact, a characteristic of all Italian architecture, with its bold contradictions of monumentality and expediency. The ornamented post in the center of the inner portal at Vkzelay (68), which is a shore for the lunette, interrupts the axis to
the altar. It is an expedient device made eventful. Kahn's uniquely deep beams over the great span of the gymnasium in the project for the Trenton Community Center are exceptional devices to maintain the consistency of the domes of the roof. They are made manifest in plan by the filled-in-columns that support them (69). Lutyens' work abounds in devices: the split at the side of the house called The Salutation in Sandwich (70), is an expedient device which is spatial. By introducing natural illumination at thecentral stair landing, it breaks the order and promotes surprise in the classical prism of the house. (In some of Jasper Johns' painting the device is similarly made explicit by arrows and notation.)