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Program-Lecture f11 S

The document discusses how form should follow function in architecture. It argues that a building's shape and design should naturally derive from and appropriately express its intended functions and purposes. The document uses examples from nature to illustrate how form always follows function, from the shapes of animals to landscapes. It suggests that architects today often violate this basic principle by failing to ensure a building's form reflects its functions.

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W hether it be the sweeping eagle in his ight or the open apple blossom the toiling work horse, the

blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. W here function does not change form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling. It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law.

Louis Sullivan

S we, then, daily violate this law in our art? Are we so decadent, so imbecile, so utterly weak of eyesight, that we cannot perceive this truth hall so simple, so very simple? Is it indeed a truth so transparent that we see through it but do not see it? Is it really then, a very marvelous thing, or is it rather so commonplace, so everyday, so near a thing to us, that we cannot perceive that the shape, form, outward expression, design or whatever we may choose, of the tall ofce building should in the very nature of things follow the functions of the building, and that where the function does not change, the form is not to change?

Wainwright Building, Louis Sullivan

Crown Hall IIT Campus,Mies van der Rohe

Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright

Paimio Sanatorium, Alvar Aalto

Viipuri Library, Alvar Aalto

Seinajoki Library, Alvar Aalto

Mt.Angel Library, Alvar Aalto

Manhattan Transcripts, Bernard Tschumi

Parc de la Villette, Bernard Tschumi

Park de la Villette, OMA

Les Halles Competition Entry, OMA

OMA Les Halles, Competition 2004

El Khafif

Seattle Library, OMA

CCTV, OMA

TVCC, OMA

Dutch Embassy, OMA

Yokohama Masterplan, OMA

Mc Cormick Campus Center IIT, OMA

OMA The Mc Cormick Tribune Campus Center IIT Chicago, 2003

BAN

maps / diagrams + design strategies

Mc Cormick Campus Center IIT, OMA

URBAN

maps / diagrams + design strategies

URBAN

maps / diagrams + design strategies

OMA The Mc Cormick Tribune Campus Center IIT Chicago, 2003

El Khafif

Mc Cormick Campus Center IIT, OMA

OMA The Mc Cormick Tribune Campus Center IIT Chicago, 2003
El Khafif

Moebius House, UN Studio

Mercedes Benz Museum, UN Studio

TEK Building, B.I.G.

10H002, L.E.FT

Home Sweets Home, L.E.FT

One-Door House / Prototypical Suburb, L.E.FT

One-Door House / Prototypical Suburb, L.E.FT.

ParaStrip, Actar Arquitectura

Flying City - KTNG Culture Complex, Unsangdong Architects

Gallery Yeh, Unsangdong Architects

2 Residences, Y o2

Aneta Grzeszikowska + Jan Smaga

analyzing program

Ursus Wehrli

student work Architectural Analysis 2011, project: Formosa, Lorcan OHerlihy students: Anesta Iwan, Bobby Leung

student work Architectural Analysis 2011, project: Viviendas Housing, Belzunce, Maurino, Millan students: Jeff Moody, Vanessa Carvalho

student work Architectural Analysis 2010, project: Void Space Hinged Space, Fukuoka, Steven Holl student: Reina Reyes

student work Architectural Analysis 2011, project: Silodam, MVRDV students: Vince Nieto, Hugh Vanho

student work Architectural Analysis 2010, project: Housing Mexico City, Dellekamp Arquitectos student: Leif Estrada

Glass Pavilion Toledo Museum of Art, SANAA

visualizing program

De Young Museum, Herzog & DeMeuron

Nelson Atkins Museum, Steven Holl

The Shape of News, CHRISTINA VAN VLECK, 2 months of newspaper cover pages showing state and content: local, national, international and war in Iraq
MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab

MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab

URBAN

maps / diagrams + design strategies

Mansilla and Tunori Architectos

El Khafif

Mansilla and Tunori Architectos

Mansilla Tunon
El Khafif

Sustainability Map, LUST, Organizations, Projects/ Products, Designer and Issue of Sustainability and
MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab

Overnewsed but uninformed, STEFAN BRUTIGAM, color code shows countries in ranking to newspaper (left) and TV (right) in relation to population Overnewsed and Underinformed, Stefan Braeutigam
MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab

URBAN

maps / diagrams + design strategies

Program analysis SoFA San Jose: Alexa Getting

El Khafif

Big Fluctuation, DENSITY DESIGN LAB

MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab

MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban http://www.coolinfographics.com/storage/post-images/visresume.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1271423479613 prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab

skim.com stores, UN Studio

Jerusalem Divided City Common Ground, Transformation of the Old City, Sarah Dunham
MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab

Divided City Common Ground Studio (Mona El/Khafif/Ila Berman, student work Sarah Dunham

Ursus Wehrli

conceptualizing program