Understanding Architecture, pt.6 - Form Follows Function

http://howtoarchitect.com/ Learn where the phrase form follows function came from and how it became a precedent that changed architecture forever.

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• form follows function
• architecture
• architect
• design
• designer
• louis sullivan
• le corbusier
• gropius
• alvar aalto
• frank lloyd wright
• Educational

[disideratum]

Did you have to add a banjo? Seriously? ffs...

[deezynar]

@IronJackalTw

Architecture is a blend of aesthetics, psychology, mediation, financing, law & engineering in varying proportions. There are no absolutes for aesthetics and psychology except that the client is satisfied. It's easier to tell if the project meets at least the minimum requirements in the other catagories.

To sum up, no design will please everyone. It is often all you can do to please the client, the building officials & the bank.

[IronJackalTw]

deezynar,

ARTsy-FARTsy ARTers have taken over! This is WHY kids today hates STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) in America!! =/

If we asked kids in America today how to do Fibonacci Number CALCULATION, they wouldn't be able to do them at all! Architecture is not ART because it is Engineering, which means FUNction > Form!! >=P

Now, we just need ARTsy-FARTsy to get out of my VIDEO GAMES because VIDEO GAMES is Engineering, which means GAMEPLAY > STORY!! >=)

[deezynar]

@deezynar

I have to correct myself. I'd read the phrase "Form follows function" was 1st said by 19th cent. American sculptor & essayist, Horatio Greenaugh. However, I just discovered that is incorrect. Greenaugh wrote that American architects shouldn't slavishly follow historic European forms, but should create new forms suited to their functions. His thesis could be boiled down to "Form follows function", but he never actually uttered the phrase.

[bimb89ers]

i used to think about the ideas that form follows function,

but there is so much more...

Pierre Cardin said, "dosent matter how a dress looks, as long its chic"

[thenightapple]

you really are an inspiration just finished watching all your videos :) u do deserve my subscribe ... tnx ! ^^

[keyzin]

Hey Doug Patt, I'm actually stuck in school with the lack of capability of drawing a 'detailed' section or elevation, meaning that the section or elevation needed a few zoom in detailings of how each of the foundations is drawn and how each arc is supported by vertical wall and horizontal slab that determined the span of the steel bar foundation that result in a different floor tiles used. Any suggestion of how to draw a good section?

[hyperion311]

and like a historical sight i think

[in2universe]

@deezynar

'form follows function' must cover more than physical functions of men since we are not machines. And nature is the best source of what men find beautiful. Ornamentation, however, is unnatural, artificial and therefore is believed to be not beautiful and unpleasant.

[Probewitch]

So that's why my bed isn't in the kitchen for example?