Above all, then, a building is an ornament.

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• I feel the WHOLE building as an ornament. ... the whole building is an ornament—whose rooms, passages, staircases, windows, ceilings, paving, benches, lamps are all extensions, pieces of that ornament.quote0.861
  Load-bearing articulation of Alexander's redefinition of ornament.
• ornament (as whole-building quality)concept0.849
  Not an applied decoration, but the inherent beauty of a building's geometric structure; the building itself as ornament.
• Tacit Assumption 7: Ornament and function in a building are separate and unrelated categories.claim0.837
  Seventh assumption, a cosmological split that leads to arbitrary decoration and dead functionalism.
• Ornament is not trivial; it summarizes everything about living structure within its laws.claim0.815
  Claim that understanding ornament means understanding the principles of living structure.
• The building as a whole is virtually pure art.claim0.808
  Claim that the pattern of solid and void, the creation of centers, is pure art, not a mixture of practical and art.
• Each building enlivens and intensifies the land.claim0.801
  The land—its valleys, ridges, trees, paths—are improved, made more solid, given a more living structure by a well-placed building.
• Ornament is not extra or extraneous; it is a necessary continuation of the same process of completing the field of centersclaim0.801
  Rejects the distinction between function and ornament; ornament is simply the smaller stuff created at the last stage to perfect the field.
• If a building is 'produced' not made, ornamentation cannot occur naturallyclaim0.799
  When making is severed from design, the process of ornamentation is upset and cannot be profound.