Ornament is not trivial; it summarizes everything about living structure within its laws.

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• Ornament is not extra or extraneous; it is a necessary continuation of the same process of completing the field of centersclaim0.831
  Rejects the distinction between function and ornament; ornament is simply the smaller stuff created at the last stage to perfect the field.
• Ornament and function are simply two versions of one more general phenomenon.claim0.827
  The conclusion of the argument that no real separation exists.
• Ornament arises, naturally, when a person is making something and seeks to embellish this 'something' while making it.quote0.818
  Opening sentence of the chapter, encapsulating the natural origin of ornament.
• Above all, then, a building is an ornament.claim0.815
  Radical claim that the highest function of a building is to be an ornament in the profound sense.
• 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.quote0.812
  Load-bearing articulation of Alexander's redefinition of ornament.
• The function of a thing and its ornament are not two separable features; they are inseparable.claim0.807
  Argument that practical function and ornamental beauty are one when a thing is well made.
• The whole building is an ornament, not something that has ornament added to it.claim0.800
  A fundamental redefinition of ornament: the entire building, in its microstructure, is an ornament.
• Tacit Assumption 7: Ornament and function in a building are separate and unrelated categories.claim0.796
  Seventh assumption, a cosmological split that leads to arbitrary decoration and dead functionalism.