ornament (as whole-building quality)

Not an applied decoration, but the inherent beauty of a building's geometric structure; the building itself as ornament.

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The whole building is an ornament, not something that has ornament added to it.
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A fundamental redefinition of ornament: the entire building, in its microstructure, is an ornament.

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Above all, then, a building is an ornament.claim0.849
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.quote0.836
Load-bearing articulation of Alexander's redefinition of ornament.
Ornamentconcept0.829
The decorative, formal beauty of a thing, shown to be inseparable from function.
Tacit Assumption 7: Ornament and function in a building are separate and unrelated categories.claim0.808
Seventh assumption, a cosmological split that leads to arbitrary decoration and dead functionalism.
Ornament is not trivial; it summarizes everything about living structure within its laws.claim0.787
Claim that understanding ornament means understanding the principles of living structure.
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 and function arise from a single evolving morphology; in a living building they are one.claim0.780
The alternative to the mechanistic split, crucial for a vital architecture.
In a living process, the generation of ornament goes hand in hand with constructionclaim0.769
Ornament is the detail that forms as the process constantly refines the centers that are there during making.