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The ornament from a Pennsylvania barn causes the observer's humanity to expand; the symbolic ornament from Brasilia causes humanity to diminish, despite Brasilia's ornament being intended as uplifting

Comparative case study illustrating that intended symbolic meaning does not determine actual phenomenological impact on observer wholeness

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A thing with more living structure makes the observer more of a person; a thing with less living structure makes the observer less of a person
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The experiential mechanism linking degree of life in objects to expansion or contraction of the observer's humanity

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At the small avenue of light green trees alongside the Dallas Art Museum, observers' sense of humanity was experienced as rising; in the harsh museum plaza with iron sculpture, humanity was experienced as droppingfinding0.764
Experiential case study confirmed by audience nodding at Dallas City Hall Council Chamber in 1992
In a living process, the generation of ornament goes hand in hand with constructionclaim0.756
Ornament is the detail that forms as the process constantly refines the centers that are there during making.
Ornament arises naturally from the continued unfolding of the wholeclaim0.756
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.claim0.754
The alternative to the mechanistic split, crucial for a vital architecture.
Ornament arises, naturally, when a person is making something and seeks to embellish this 'something' while making it.quote0.753
Opening sentence of the chapter, encapsulating the natural origin of ornament.
Ornament is not extra or extraneous; it is a necessary continuation of the same process of completing the field of centersclaim0.743
Rejects the distinction between function and ornament; ornament is simply the smaller stuff created at the last stage to perfect the field.
The greater life in the animal comes from the field of centers which is created there, not from copying or 'realism'.claim0.735
Extension of the previous claim, tying life directly to centers.
If the fundamental process is followed, it is inevitable that ornaments will have certain things in common and a certain profound quality in common.claim0.734
Prediction that ornaments from the process will share space-filling geometries, positive space, etc.