Architects of the time were guided by the “rule” that “form follows function,” which prompted designers to consider what a building should achieve for the user before what it should look like.

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 ...

Form follows function, so I trust that for architects who operate on with broad “outside-in” perspective, the view of architecture’s value in co-workers’ hearts and minds will reflect the ...

American architect Louis Sullivan, the father of modernism, is widely credited with the key axiom of 20th century modern architecture: "Form follows function." That adage is also vital to data ...

What is the legacy of 1960s design? In design, the credo “form follows function” that arose from rationalism and the Ulm School is still (or again) current in terms of climate change and the ...

The design for the second bridge, for Interstate 30, came in way over budget, though, and was utterly uninspired: four parallel arches, two higher in the middle, two lower on the sides.

Design can sometimes be mundane- except when it’s novelty architecture. These buildings uniquely and identifiably break away from the abstract, metaphorical, and often monotonous buildings that ...

The Auditorium Theatre is the greatest monument imaginable to the classic dictum of one of its architects, Louis Sullivan, that form follows function. Completed in 1889, this elegant hall has a ...