“FORM EVER FOLLOWS FUNCTION.
THIS IS THE LAW.”*
THE GOLDEN WEDDING BETWEEN
These were the words of Louis H. Sullivan, the American
rationalist architect who coined for the first time what is
today the quintessential maxim of contemporary design
and architecture: “form ever follows function”. The
ornament without functionality is useless and the shape
of the object must be justified by its usefulness.
In Slimgot (*in image), the shape of the truncated pyramid
is a paradigmatic example of orthodoxy to Sullivan’s
commandment. The optimization of the luminous flux is
the reason for its shape.
*Sullivan, Louis H. (1896). “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered”.
Lippincott’s Magazine (March 1896): 403–409.
SHAPE &
FUNCTION
