A Quote by Carl Magnusson
Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.
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Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
Function is fundamental to design, of course. If something doesn't work, it's a bad product, and I certainly get frustrated by things that aren't functional. But there has to be more than function. A house has to function, but if that's all it does, you don't love it.
Form follows function.
The form follows the function.
Form ever follows function.
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
Form follows finances instead of function.
Form follows function straight to hell.
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
