The building as a whole is virtually pure art.

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• A building, or a building detail, or a painting, is, to some degree or other, spirit.claim0.831
  The claim that made things are actual realizations of spirit, in their material substance.
• The whole building is an ornament, not something that has ornament added to it.claim0.824
  A fundamental redefinition of ornament: the entire building, in its microstructure, is an ornament.
• The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.820
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
• 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 actual substance itself—the building, the painting—made to be a center—is itself physically spirit.claim0.810
  The assertion that dull material becomes spirit itself when it has the center.
• Above all, then, a building is an ornament.claim0.808
  Radical claim that the highest function of a building is to be an ornament in the profound sense.
• It is theoretically impossible to build a successful building from a set of drawings specifying every detail.claim0.807
  Because feedback is needed to shape elements during construction.
• In the best cases, the building form will be interwoven with nature itself, seeming extremely ordinary, not like the work of an architect's hands.claim0.806