Under the process of "addition exaptation", a feature that is functional in one capacity assumes a second function without losing its original function (Arnold 1994).
Is that a new model for luxury goods in general, the idea of design that is functional?
He loves the architecture, a postwar style that is functional and muted.
"They are looking for something that is functional and practical that makes life easier to deal with," he said.
"In my day, five branches in my seat all worked their backsides off, now there is maybe one branch that is functional," Kelly said of the seat of Lindsay, now held by Fiona Scott.
"Governments haven't produced results, politically or economically, and people are fed up and looking for an alternative that is functional and coherent," said Michael Shifter, a senior policy analyst at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington.
More and more in the last few years, Manhattan's downtown choreographers have been using movement that is functional, conventional and pedestrian to illuminate movement that we think of as art.
They rest on a simple design (here, by Gaelle Mellis) that is functional and allows the music room to breathe, predicated on the careful use of lighting (Neil Simpson).
Reconstitution of the choanocyte chambers and of the canal system follow soon afterward, resulting in a young sponge that is functional and able to grow.
"We want a government of partners that is functional, not like the one now that cannot make decisions," he said, speaking while donating blood for the wounded.
West has been a house painter since he was 15 -- he paints alone, often without even a radio -- and his workday uniform rarely changes: paint-splattered pants, T-shirt and worn tan Carhartt jacket that is functional as opposed to fashionable.
