Sullivan mentored Frank Lloyd Wright, who extended the idea to argue that form and function are one, and his architecture is famous for successfully implementing that standard. Why does it matter?

Most people can't, according to a new study. And those results suggest that many public buildings don't follow one of the most famous dictums of architecture: Form follows function. Residents of ...

World Archaeology, Vol. 41, No. 3, The Archaeology of Buildings (Sep., 2009), pp. 505-519 (15 pages) The form of buildings does not depend only on function, but also on climate, topography, available ...

A good design should always pass tests where plenty of different users try out the device. “Form should follow function” is one mantra. But function means more than a device works.

Will form follow function?In the mid-1960s, the words of the high priest of popular culture, Marshall McLuhan, “the medium is the message,” presaged the practice of contemporary architecture ...

As an architecture major, I am well versed, maybe indoctrinated, with the design principle ‘form follows function’. A principle associated with the birth of modern architecture at the turn of the 20th ...

As engineers we perhaps like to think that, if form does follows function, then a design will be correct. While in many cases that may be true, it may be with automobiles that function may need some ...

But I have simplified my criteria to a phrase coined for architecture but fitting for all design: form follows function.