Each building enlivens and intensifies the land.

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• The whole building is an ornament, not something that has ornament added to it.claim0.828
  A fundamental redefinition of ornament: the entire building, in its microstructure, is an ornament.
• "Remember that each building exists mainly to activate the land."quote0.821
  A summarizing heading that serves as a load-bearing aphorism for the whole chapter.
• The land itself, and our love for it, is enough to give the actual building volumes their shape.claim0.812
  If the volumes genuinely help the land, they become more graceful, serious, and differentiated.
• 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.quote0.806
  Load-bearing articulation of Alexander's redefinition of ornament.
• Above all, then, a building is an ornament.claim0.801
  Radical claim that the highest function of a building is to be an ornament in the profound sense.
• That is the essence of all gardens, and all agriculture: that built materials, human-made structures create a setting in which people, animals and plants can thrive.claim0.789
  Definitional claim about gardens as a symbiosis of built structure and living nature.
• IT IS THE LAND WHICH MATTERS. The purpose of the buildings is to bring life to the land.claim0.788
  The building volumes are merely tools; the land and its space, as activated, are what really matter.
• A building which has profound feeling will also solve seemingly unrelated functional aspects.claim0.782