"Form should follow function" 2

[thruthefence]

"Form should follow function"

I have heard this for years. Anyone know who originated the phrase?

 

[KENAT]

Whoever it was, must have been before industrial designers;-).

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[berkshire]

I think you must be right Greg,
All of today's competition gliders/sailplanes look like they were stamped out with the same cookie cutter.
B.E.

 

[KENAT]

Berkshire, I think that's a case where performance concerns triumph aesthetic concerns by a long margin.

Once aesthetic or similar concerns come seriously into play, even if just in the sub conscious of those designing it, than the form may drift from the function.

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[berkshire]

Kenat,
I think this is a case, where computers driven by Wortman, Eppler, and Ronz have taken the individualism out of the design, and customers will not accept the latest offerings from the manufacturers unless, the performance is at least a fraction of a gnat's anatomy better than the last offering.
Mind you, they do look graceful.
B.E.

 

[KENAT]

Like I said performance, and hence physics, is driving it.

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[MALK]

Ducati fff ? Maybe once upon a time.

 

[DrillerNic]

Greg- a lot of the brutalist academic building in teh UK stem from the large expansion in further education in the uk in the 1960's. A lot of the new universities wanted bold statement architecture, so they hired 'name' architects. And in the 1960's concrete brutalism was the hot fashion in archtecture, so they all got concrete brutalist buildings.. if they buildings had been commissioned in the noughties they would be inside out Foster designs or something.

UEA's ziggurats are famous.....partly for nearly falling down (like the infamous Ronan Point collapse).

 

[MALK]

I believe the cladding fell off the Glasgow college of building...

 

[SomptingGuy]

I also remember the cladding falling off Plymouth Poly back in the 80's.

- Steve