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quote:ornament-arises-naturally-when-a-person-is-making-something-and-seeks-to-embellish-this-something-while-making-itOrnament arises, naturally, when a person is making something and seeks to embellish this 'something' while making it.
Opening sentence of the chapter, encapsulating the natural origin of ornament.
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- The central thesis: embellishment is spontaneous, coming from the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more structure.
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- Ornament is the detail that forms as the process constantly refines the centers that are there during making.
- Ornament and function arise from a single evolving morphology; in a living building they are one.claim0.843The alternative to the mechanistic split, crucial for a vital architecture.
- Rejects the distinction between function and ornament; ornament is simply the smaller stuff created at the last stage to perfect the field.
- Claim that understanding ornament means understanding the principles of living structure.
- The conclusion of the argument that no real separation exists.
- The guiding question for the in-depth example of the Martinez floor, answered through the step-by-step description.
- When making is severed from design, the process of ornamentation is upset and cannot be profound.
- 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.