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#21 - Adam Nathaniel Furman

Theory of Architecture

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Ornament Is a Form of Ornamentation

Ornament is the way that our values are externalized and expressed at the scale of the building. It's a natural, biological human urge to externalize ourselves in space. Ornaments can be anything from national planning right down to your jewelry or the clothes that you wear. Since the canon 19 eighties, there has been an orthodoxy on architectural context - it's like saying no people can come into this country unless they are te people who have always been here. But i guess i refer people to victoria london, not anly london. I mean, victoria, victorian urbanism, i guess, which was a kind of mad free forall where everything was

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