The function-follows-form Sydney Opera House, designed by Jorn Utzon, exemplifies this. Advertisement Long before the modernist phrase was coined and codified, function determined architectural form.

In an 1896 essay about skyscrapers, he coined the phrase “form follows function,” which eventually became the rallying cry of ...

"That didn't happen in our survey, which suggests form is not following function in American architecture." The phrase "form follows function" was coined in 1918 by American architect Louis ...

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 ...

The Margaret Hunt Hill span represents sophisticated engineering, but also art concealing art.

Organic architecture involves a respect for the properties of the materials—you don’t twist steel into a flower—and a respect for the harmonious relationship between the form/design and the ...

Both the cover story by Nicolai Ouroussoff ("Drafting a Career," June 23) and subsequent letter by Jeff Softley (June 30) miss the point about Michael Maltzan's 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 ...

At the center of “Columbus” is a bank designed by Eero Saarinen. It’s the first truly modernist bank, a simple unimposing glass building. Built in a time — Casey (Haley Lu Richardson “Split”) tells us ...