A large-scale quantitative study including 150 buildings shows that four architectural design types ("solid," "balanced," "expressive," and "disruptive" designs, emerging from a mix of functionalist and experiential architectures, lead to distinct corporate brand personalities (e.g., competence for functionalist architecture and excitement for experiential architecture).
He opens his brief essay "Of Building" (Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral) with a pronouncement still prized by modern-day architectural functionalists: "Houses are built to live in, and not to look on".
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Venturi in full Robert Charles Venturi and Scott Brown née Lakofski (respectively, born June 25 , 1925 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. born October 3 , 1931 Nkana, Northern Rhodesia [now Zambia]) American architects who proposed alternatives to the functionalist mainstream of 20th-century American architectural design.
The area, originally a medieval settlement dating from the ninth century, now is a collection of architectural styles, including neo-Gothic, Renaissance, Cubist and Functionalist.
His most important work is considered to be the chapel of the Turku cemetery (1938 41), which, though in the functionalist idiom, makes a strong emotional appeal, particularly through the use of light entering the interior as an architectural element.
You can continue in the architectural vein at the Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, whose admission price includes a visit to a perfectly preserved Functionalist-style house from 1933 (admission £8).
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Critical approaches directly challenge functionalist approaches.
He called himself a "functionalist tempered by frivolity".
Functionalist simplicity was combined with sculpturally expressive form.
