Definitions are, as Aristotle would say, a perfection of knowledge, but you can be pedantic about it. The point is to make necessary distinctions. But in architecture, which is a practical act, the need for total theoretical precision is not necessary, because the aim is not to create a dictionary, but to produce a building. If we wish, we could say that ornament concerns what is immutable about a building, while decoration is something that can festoon a building, thus putting it somewhat outside the domain of architecture in the strict sense.
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Definitions are, as Aristotle would say, a perfection of knowledge, but you can be pedantic about it. The point is to make necessary distinctions. But in architecture, which is a practical act, the need for total theoretical precision is not necessary, because the aim is not to create a dictionary, but to produce a building.
If we wish, we could say that ornament concerns what is immutable about a building, while decoration is something that can festoon a building, thus putting it somewhat outside the domain of architecture in the strict sense.