Most buildings today, regardless of size, style, location or purpose, still embody the principle of form following function both inside and out. What's changed is that, while functional ...

And those results suggest that many public buildings don't follow one of the most famous dictums of architecture: Form follows function. When you look at the exterior of a building, can you tell ...

When you can't tell City Hall from an art museum, perhaps architecture isn't doing its job. Indeed, one new study finds most people can't see the difference in many U.S. buildings. Residents in ...

The commanding presence of MIT s main academic buildings along the Charles ... the campus should look like (Freeman favored function over form, whereas Bosworth was more concerned with bringing ...

Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past ... relationship between the form/design and the function of the building (for example, Wright rejected the idea of making a ...

Forrestal Building, home of the Energy Department ... Kaptur instinctively understood that Forrestal’s form was impeding its function — to the detriment of U.S. national security.

For a long time, homes and other buildings were built to cater to particular needs (like providing mass housing), with little thought to their aesthetic function. “That’s alright. Israel is a ...

Architectural theory and criticism often validate the distance between good architecture and bad building, between poetic expression and utilitarian function. Generally, the former is valued while ...

"Creating buildings that work with nature ... creating a comfortable and inviting space that ties together form, function, and color. Shakeri was involved in the exterior and interior design ...

we've had to downsize and every square inch of our space has to be designed for form and function, it's a constant battle of ...