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claim:the-architect-s-separation-from-tools-and-materials-prevents-natural-ornament-flowThe architect's separation from tools and materials prevents natural ornament flow
A machine-age architect has no connection with the actual making, so ornament cannot flow naturally from his hands.
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- When making is severed from design, the process of ornamentation is upset and cannot be profound.
- Opening sentence of the chapter, encapsulating the natural origin of ornament.
- The cosmological assumption that ornament and function in a building are separate, with function being mechanical and ornament arbitrary, stemming from mechanism.
- The central thesis: embellishment is spontaneous, coming from the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more structure.
- Ornament and function arise from a single evolving morphology; in a living building they are one.claim0.750The alternative to the mechanistic split, crucial for a vital architecture.
- Observation about the culture of architecture that perpetuates the separation of design from making.
- Tacit Assumption 7: Ornament and function in a building are separate and unrelated categories.claim0.746Seventh assumption, a cosmological split that leads to arbitrary decoration and dead functionalism.