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method:pre-cast-concrete-ornament-castingPre-cast concrete ornament casting
Making molds for small ornamental segments and inserting pre-cast concrete blocks into a chase in poured concrete walls.
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- The current chapter, arguing that ornament arises naturally from the living process of unfolding a field of centers.
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- Alexander's technique of carving cheap styrofoam as formwork for complex concrete shapes, enabling brackets, arches, and ornament at low cost.
- The decorative, formal beauty of a thing, shown to be inseparable from function.
- Radical claim that the highest function of a building is to be an ornament in the profound sense.
- Not an applied decoration, but the inherent beauty of a building's geometric structure; the building itself as ornament.
- Opening sentence of the chapter, encapsulating the natural origin of ornament.
- Rejects the distinction between function and ornament; ornament is simply the smaller stuff created at the last stage to perfect the field.
- Construction technique used at West Dean Visitor's Centre for complex concrete pieces with herringbone brick panels.
- A fundamental redefinition of ornament: the entire building, in its microstructure, is an ornament.