Sullivan mentored Frank Lloyd Wright, who extended the idea to argue that form and function are one, and his architecture is famous for successfully implementing that standard. Why does it matter?

Architecture - Study, Form, and Function with Craig Anz Fred Martino interviews Craig Anz, Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

Will form follow function?In the mid-1960s, the words of the high priest of popular culture, Marshall McLuhan, “the medium is the message,” presaged the practice of contemporary architecture ...

As an architecture major, I am well versed, maybe indoctrinated, with the design principle ‘form follows function’. A principle associated with the birth of modern architecture at the turn of the 20th ...

So, to recap: In modern cars, form does not follow function, at least not literally. And yet, never is form so disassociated from function that a rolling Parthenon makes it to production.

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design ...