Thesis Summary
This statement presents architecture as a primarily functional act, and only then makes beauty a later stage that comes after utility and stability have been achieved.
Foundational Atoms
Position of Support within the Book
This understanding rests on a passage that speaks of architecture’s development of consciousness, from necessity to aesthetic abstraction, in the final section of the book.
Limits of the Reading
This is a brief reading that adheres only to what is stated in the atoms. It does not make beauty irrelevant, but rather places it after function in the order of priority.