Form Follows Function

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Form Follows Function

• Modernistic Design

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Modernism

• Emerged as a result of the advent of the
  Industrial Era
• Reduction of types of process used
• Designer gradually separated from engineers
• Goes well with mass production and consumerism
• Ornament is crime
• Form follows function
• Less is more

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Modernism Bauhaus(1920s 1930s)

• Originated in Germany by Walter Gropius
• Literally, House for Building
• Advocate combined practical and theoretical
  education

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Modernism Bauhaus (1920s 1930s)

• Strike a balance between practical and aesthetic
  concerns
• Seek to exploit the use of new technologies
• Integrate design theory with the industrial
  process
• Take advantage of the possibilities of mass
  production to achieve a style of design that is
  both functional and aesthetic

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Modernism Bauhaus (1920s 1930s)

• Characterized by straight edges and smooth, slim
  forms, hygienic freshness, shining steel
• Economical use of space, material, time and money

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Modernism International Style (1920s 1970s)

• Originated in the United States as an American
  version of Bauhaus
• Advocate an aesthetic style that applies
  universally to the whole world

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Modernism International Style (1920s 1970s)

• Characterized by concrete, steel, clear glass,
  geometric forms
• Stress on machinery beauty
• Form should express the structure of the design

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Manifestation in Hong Kong

• Synchronous with the development of HK
• Still a dominant design philosophy
• IC was bought up in the modernism era

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Modernism around us

• Today we are so overwhelmed by modernistic
  objects that we hardly notice them

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Current Status

• Fading
• Alienation Boring
• Beginning of individualism
• Anti-consumerism, conservation
• Digital technologies
• On-going
• Combine with spherical and toroidal surfaces
• More prominent fillets