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.

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• Above all, then, a building is an ornament.claim0.861
  Radical claim that the highest function of a building is to be an ornament in the profound sense.
• ornament (as whole-building quality)concept0.836
  Not an applied decoration, but the inherent beauty of a building's geometric structure; the building itself as 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.quote0.824
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
• Tacit Assumption 7: Ornament and function in a building are separate and unrelated categories.claim0.816
  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.claim0.812
  Claim that understanding ornament means understanding the principles of living structure.
• The building as a whole is virtually pure art.claim0.812
  Claim that the pattern of solid and void, the creation of centers, is pure art, not a mixture of practical and art.
• To be whole, a building must be 'lost' in its surroundings—not separate, but part and parcel of them.claim0.810
  Defines the paradoxical quality of a living whole in architecture.
• Each building enlivens and intensifies the land.claim0.806
  The land—its valleys, ridges, trees, paths—are improved, made more solid, given a more living structure by a well-placed building.