JAV132H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Auguste Perret, Joseph Paxton, Rococo
2 Dec 2016
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Myth of functionalism: form never follows function . Form, in fact, never follows function in modern architecture. The idea that modern architecture is, was, or should be directly determined by . The requirement of the economy (the need to build housing) There"s a relationship of necessity between program and form, or structure and form, or materials and form, or economy and form. Avant-garde architects rarely used the word functional and used the word sachlich which meant objective or matter of fact. Anglo-saxon critics (critics from american and england) writing in the 1930s/1940s flatly described architecture in europe as functional architecture. Postmodern critics (1960s-1980s) used the word functionalist as almost an insult. It"s a label that is applied to mean came before . Modern movement was never functionalist, but modern architecture (architecture that emerged in the west since the enlightenment) was a kind of architecture that set up a very unique relationship between the necessary and unnecessary parts of a building.
