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?

Architecture - Study, Form, and Function with Craig Anz Fred Martino interviews Craig Anz, Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

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.

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 ...

In my first week of studying industrial design in college one of my professors turned to the class, and while holding and pointing to a hammer, he said "form follows function." That was ...

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 – the central tenant of modern architecture – is an idea most often employed to justify cheap, ruthlessly efficient factories and office buildings.

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 ...

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 ...