What do you define as "good" architecture?

Define the word ornament as it applies to architecture?

• Answer:

  That which delights the eye but serves no structural or functional purpose. For example, pilasters, carved details, colour, sculpture, stained glass, wrought iron, brass railings, candelabras, mosaics or wall or ceiling paintings. Modern architecture of the brutalist school eschews anything which does not serve function. Architects of this school must have been born in caves and must live in caves also, not to appreciate that which pleases the eye. I live in Ottawa, and our National Arts Center is an an example ot that which I do not like: panels of cast browinish matrix concrete on the outside, polished matrix concrete on the inside, and clear-glass light bulbs with naked filaments, which stab at the eye. No velvet or marble or polished granite, no blown glass or crystal, no carved wood or paintings, other than framed stuff from our "Art" Bank. Sad and sorry stuff. Go look at the Royal Opera in Munich.