Ornament as profound art

The view that ornament is not trivial but a deep, organizing principle that makes a building a living thing, an ornament in the highest sense.

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Above all, then, a building is an ornament.
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Radical claim that the highest function of a building is to be an ornament in the profound sense.

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Ornamentconcept0.793
The decorative, formal beauty of a thing, shown to be inseparable from function.
Ornament arises, naturally, when a person is making something and seeks to embellish this 'something' while making it.quote0.785
Opening sentence of the chapter, encapsulating the natural origin of ornament.
Ornament and function are simply two versions of one more general phenomenon.claim0.780
The conclusion of the argument that no real separation exists.
Ornament is not trivial; it summarizes everything about living structure within its laws.claim0.774
Claim that understanding ornament means understanding the principles of living structure.
Art (poetry, paintings) requires massive personal interpretation on the decoding end, a drastic bowtie.claim0.765
Example from Table 1.
Ornament is not extra or extraneous; it is a necessary continuation of the same process of completing the field of centersclaim0.764
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 indistinguishable.claim0.764
New cosmological assumption #6: both are aspects of the field of centers.
Ornament arises naturally from the continued unfolding of the wholeclaim0.758
The central thesis: embellishment is spontaneous, coming from the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more structure.