Form follows function is a principle associated with modern architecture and industrial design in the 20th century. The principle is that the shape of a building or object should be primarily based upon its intended function or purpose.
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Famous quotes containing the words form and/or function:
“Mine eye hath play’d the painter, and hath steel’d
Thy beauty’s form in table of my heart:”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
““... The state’s one function is to give.
The bud must bloom till blowsy blown
Its petals loosen and are strown;
And that’s a fate it can’t evade
Unless ‘twould rather wilt than fade.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)