Sentence examples for follows function from inspiring English sources
"I think the idea of American design is that form follows function, and that design is responsible to functionality.
Inverting the familiar dictum that "form follows function", Niemeyer demonstrated instead that, "When a form creates beauty it becomes functional and therefore fundamental in architecture".
"Form follows function," Dr. Moran said.
Form follows function in the Madden Cruiser.
("Form follows function" dates to the Paleolithic).
But this is a fairly recent idea, the language of the form-follows-function modernism of the mid-20th century.
The departures were often criticized for being over the top, for lacking the form-follows-function restraint and understated elegance of the predecessors he revered.
They also admired his lucid and totally unsentimental intelligence, and his withering attacks on the form-follows-function dogma of the Bauhaus loyalists.
I mean, I am not -- with apologies to Mies van der Rohe -- a form-follows-function guy.
"We're form-follows-function kind of people," Mr. Grace's daughter Maria said.
