W hether it be the sweeping eagle in his ight or the open apple blossom the toiling work horse, the
blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. W here function does not change form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling. It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law.
Louis Sullivan
S we, then, daily violate this law in our art? Are we so decadent, so imbecile, so utterly weak of eyesight, that we cannot perceive this truth hall so simple, so very simple? Is it indeed a truth so transparent that we see through it but do not see it? Is it really then, a very marvelous thing, or is it rather so commonplace, so everyday, so near a thing to us, that we cannot perceive that the shape, form, outward expression, design or whatever we may choose, of the tall ofce building should in the very nature of things follow the functions of the building, and that where the function does not change, the form is not to change?
Wainwright Building, Louis Sullivan
Crown Hall IIT Campus,Mies van der Rohe
Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright
Paimio Sanatorium, Alvar Aalto
Viipuri Library, Alvar Aalto
Seinajoki Library, Alvar Aalto
Mt.Angel Library, Alvar Aalto
Manhattan Transcripts, Bernard Tschumi
Parc de la Villette, Bernard Tschumi
Park de la Villette, OMA
Park de la Villette, OMA
Park de la Villette, OMA
Park de la Villette, OMA
Park de la Villette, OMA
Park de la Villette, OMA
Les Halles Competition Entry, OMA
OMA Les Halles, Competition 2004
El Khafif
Seattle Library, OMA
Seattle Library, OMA
CCTV, OMA
TVCC, OMA
Dutch Embassy, OMA
Yokohama Masterplan, OMA
Mc Cormick Campus Center IIT, OMA
OMA The Mc Cormick Tribune Campus Center IIT Chicago, 2003
BAN
maps / diagrams + design strategies
Mc Cormick Campus Center IIT, OMA
URBAN
maps / diagrams + design strategies
URBAN
maps / diagrams + design strategies
OMA The Mc Cormick Tribune Campus Center IIT Chicago, 2003
El Khafif
Mc Cormick Campus Center IIT, OMA
OMA The Mc Cormick Tribune Campus Center IIT Chicago, 2003
El Khafif
Moebius House, UN Studio
Moebius House, UN Studio
Moebius House, UN Studio
Mercedes Benz Museum, UN Studio
Mercedes Benz Museum, UN Studio
Mercedes Benz Museum, UN Studio
TEK Building, B.I.G.
10H002, L.E.FT
Home Sweets Home, L.E.FT
One-Door House / Prototypical Suburb, L.E.FT
One-Door House / Prototypical Suburb, L.E.FT.
One-Door House / Prototypical Suburb, L.E.FT.
ParaStrip, Actar Arquitectura
ParaStrip, Actar Arquitectura
Flying City - KTNG Culture Complex, Unsangdong Architects
Flying City - KTNG Culture Complex, Unsangdong Architects
Gallery Yeh, Unsangdong Architects
Gallery Yeh, Unsangdong Architects
2 Residences, Y o2
2 Residences, Y o2
2 Residences, Y o2
2 Residences, Y o2
2 Residences, Y o2
Aneta Grzeszikowska + Jan Smaga
analyzing program
Ursus Wehrli
student work Architectural Analysis 2011, project: Formosa, Lorcan OHerlihy students: Anesta Iwan, Bobby Leung
student work Architectural Analysis 2011, project: Formosa, Lorcan OHerlihy students: Anesta Iwan, Bobby Leung
student work Architectural Analysis 2011, project: Formosa, Lorcan OHerlihy students: Anesta Iwan, Bobby Leung
student work Architectural Analysis 2011, project: Viviendas Housing, Belzunce, Maurino, Millan students: Jeff Moody, Vanessa Carvalho
student work Architectural Analysis 2010, project: Void Space Hinged Space, Fukuoka, Steven Holl student: Reina Reyes
student work Architectural Analysis 2011, project: Silodam, MVRDV students: Vince Nieto, Hugh Vanho
student work Architectural Analysis 2011, project: Silodam, MVRDV students: Vince Nieto, Hugh Vanho
student work Architectural Analysis 2011, project: Silodam, MVRDV students: Vince Nieto, Hugh Vanho
student work Architectural Analysis 2010, project: Housing Mexico City, Dellekamp Arquitectos student: Leif Estrada
student work Architectural Analysis 2010, project: Housing Mexico City, Dellekamp Arquitectos student: Leif Estrada
student work Architectural Analysis 2010, project: Housing Mexico City, Dellekamp Arquitectos student: Leif Estrada
Glass Pavilion Toledo Museum of Art, SANAA
visualizing program
De Young Museum, Herzog & DeMeuron
Nelson Atkins Museum, Steven Holl
The Shape of News, CHRISTINA VAN VLECK, 2 months of newspaper cover pages showing state and content: local, national, international and war in Iraq
MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab
MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab
URBAN
maps / diagrams + design strategies
Mansilla and Tunori Architectos
El Khafif
Mansilla and Tunori Architectos
Mansilla Tunon
El Khafif
Sustainability Map, LUST, Organizations, Projects/ Products, Designer and Issue of Sustainability and
MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab
Overnewsed but uninformed, STEFAN BRUTIGAM, color code shows countries in ranking to newspaper (left) and TV (right) in relation to population Overnewsed and Underinformed, Stefan Braeutigam
MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab
URBAN
maps / diagrams + design strategies
Program analysis SoFA San Jose: Alexa Getting
El Khafif
Big Fluctuation, DENSITY DESIGN LAB
MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab
MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab
MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban http://www.coolinfographics.com/storage/post-images/visresume.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1271423479613 prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab
skim.com stores, UN Studio
skim.com stores, UN Studio
Jerusalem Divided City Common Ground, Transformation of the Old City, Sarah Dunham
MADE FOR CHINA rapid urban prototyping in Tianjin Spring 2011 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona El Khafif CCA/URBANlab
Divided City Common Ground Studio (Mona El/Khafif/Ila Berman, student work Sarah Dunham
Ursus Wehrli
conceptualizing program
Program Analysis MArch Studio 1 2010 student: Ben Leavitt
Program Analysis MArch Studio 1 2010 student: Frances Reid
Program Analysis MArch Studio 1 2010 student: Tammy Lepham
Program Analysis MArch Studio 1 2010 student: Phil Jones
Program Analysis MArch Studio 1 2010 student: Katie Dyer
Program Analysis MArch Studio 1 2010 student: Matt Arnold
