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The famous Modernist axiom, ‘form follows function’, suggests that the programmatic needs of a design, its function, should both precede and take precedence over decisions about its aesthetic expression or form.
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Ostwald, M.J., Dawes, M.J. (2018). Glenn Murcutt: Form and Social Function. In: The Mathematics of the Modernist Villa. Mathematics and the Built Environment, vol 3. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71647-3_7
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