ABSTRACT
That was a familiar tenet of 20th-century architecture, originally expressed by the Bauhaus school of design and popularized in America by the architect Louis Sullivan and his student Frank Lloyd Wright. Yet most architecture has focused on form rather than function. It is as if the structure itself, harmony with the site, and integrity of the materials have become the function. Less emphasis has been placed on the activities taking place inside the building. As a whole, the profession continues to be dominated by the view that architecture is a matter of aesthetics (Figure 3.1), and that form only follows form (Wikipedia, Nov. 2006).
