In my first week of studying industrial design in college one of my professors turned to the class, and while holding and pointing to a hammer, he said "form follows function." That was the first time ...

Architecture at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla., reflects the abstract artistry of Salvador Dali by incorporating Radius Track’s cold-formed steel framing to bring the building to life. Coined ...

Happy birthday, Louis Henry Sullivan. The father of the skyscraper, patriarch of modernism, coiner of everyone's favorite design phrase, "form (ever) follows function," was born on this day in 1856.

It only takes one glimpse into a classroom from 100 years ago to realize that, other than updated desks, colorful posters, and the presence of a computer here and there, little of substance has ...

Never does the Miesian axiom “form follows function” spring to mind more readily than when considering the homely photographic enlarger, whose pedestrian function it is to reside in a darkened room ...

Harvard Business School's Andrew McAfee has been doing a compelling job lately describing the use of Web 2.0-style collaboration techniques in the enterprise. He calls this Enterprise 2.0 and has been ...

Secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs) are the central organizing platform for the immune system's daily 'business': coping with infectious challenges from the environment. The following functional building ...

In my first week of studying industrial design in college one of my professors turned to the class, and while holding and pointing to a hammer, he said "form follows function." That was the first time ...