It states that the form of a building will at the end of the day follow the function of the house. The Bauhaus school boiled this concept down so that the function became prime in the design of the ...

Modernist architecture has two chief guiding principles: form follows function and truth to materials. Functionalism, a term coined by American architect Louis Sullivan, stated that the building’s ...

“If form follows function, then you should be able to look at a building and have a good idea about what goes on inside,” said Jack Nasar, co-author of the study and professor of city and ...

Happy birthday, Louis Henry Sullivan.. The father of the skyscraper, patriarch of modernism, coiner of everyone's favorite design phrase, "form (ever) follows function," was born on this day in 1856.