Does Form Follow Function? Lec: - Fankar Compiled by:- Binita Shah Synthesis on form should follow function.

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y The new design is one of a series of ongoing improvements in the Journal that has included This Week in the Journal, the biweekly Clinical Practice articles, Perspective essays, the Weekly Continuing Medical Education Program, and a Web site with various new services for subscribers.(Drazen,2003).

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According to Sullivan function means life force and not only utility. The essence is its life force. This is brought out by its form.( Collinger. C.c,2009)

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Writing in 1896 Louis Sullivan coined the phrase form follows function. He meant that a buildings design should reflect the uses to which it would be put. Those who stud architecture of organization can apply Sullivans concept.( Drazen j.m ,2010).

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The new design is one of a series of ongoing improvements in the Journal that has included This Week in the Journal, the biweekly Clinical Practice articles, Perspective essays, the Weekly Continuing Medical Education Program, and a Web site with various new services for subscribers. At several stages during the design process, we asked some of our readers for guidance and opinions, which proved invaluable on many crucial points. We remain committed to publishing the highest- quality research and reliable, authoritative review articles. The Journals traditions of editorial independence, content uninterrupted by commercial advertising, and academic rigor will continue to be strictly upheld. We welcome your thoughts about the new design and other changes in the Journal. If, after a few issues with this new look, you have ideas or opinions about how to enhance the design, usefulness, or readability of the Journal, please let us know.

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To Sullivan, "function" didn't mean merely "utility" or "pragmatic use." Instead, it meant something like "life force." His "form follows function" dictum expressed a kind of essentialist vitalism. The "essence" of a thing in nature (an eagle, a cloud, a river) is its life force. This life force results in the outward form of that thing. In Sullivan's own words, "Unceasingly the essence of things is taking shape in the matter of things." To Sullivan, the essence of a skyscraper is to be grand and tall. But grandness and tallness are hardly the "function" of a skyscraper in a modern utilitarian sense.

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The American architect Louis Sullivan, writing in 1896, coined the phrase "form follows function." By that he meant that a building's design should reflect, above all, the uses to which it would be put. Those of us who study the architecture of organizations, which we call "organization structure," can apply Sullivan's concept to the analysis of organizations in useful ways.

References

Collinger. C.c,(2009).form follows function revisted.from http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1353612.

Gellerman, Saul W.(1990). In organizations, as in architecture, form follows function. From http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-8202776/organizations-architecture-form-follows.html

Drazen j.m ,(2010). from http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMe020160