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ID: 300445006
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300445006

 

Record Type: concept
form follows function (<historical, theoretical and critical concepts for visual arts>, <historical, theoretical, and critical concepts>, ... Associated Concepts (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Principle of design proposing that the shape of a built work or object should serve and illustrate its intended purpose. This philosophy and maxim was coined by architect Louis Sullivan, and is associated with late 19th to early 20th century architecture and industrial design.
 
Terms:
form follows function (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,N)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  B.BM

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Hierarchy of <concepts in the arts and humanities>
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Hierarchy of <historical, theoretical, and critical concepts>
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Hierarchy of <historical, theoretical and critical concepts for visual arts>
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Related concepts:
basis of ....  functionalism
..............  (forms of expression (artistic concept), artistic concepts, ... Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) [300056529]
related to ....  function (general concept)
..................  (multidisciplinary concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) [300444971]

Sources and Contributors:
form follows function............  [VP Preferred]
......................................  Oxford Art Online (2008-)
......................................  Richards, Introduction to Modern Architecture (1948)
......................................  Wilson and Robinson, Modern Architecture (1991)
 
Subject: .....  [VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Oxford Art Online (2008-) Michael Clarke, "functionalism," accessed 24 August 2021

 

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