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If "form follows function" whatever the function is, it is the most dynamic point of all design departure, as all design, it seems, hinges on this single premise.So to get to an incredible end product, one has to, it seems from the purist corner, start with the function. This is an absolute according to design moguls the world over.
However - and here is the HUGE rub.
If the design ideal is that " form follows function" which makes complete sense - However hard one tries to change the dynamic. today's design reality is "Form follows finance" (not a new school of thought - but definitely one i have experienced many times) We see militant accountants unashamedly butcher artistry, minimizing dramatic design ideas that are the very essence of the end product. Leaving a husk of skeletal design thought remaining which is not really worth getting very excited about. Then everyone blames the designer - Whilst the real design hackers slink away into the shadows. If you look at the original concept sketches for most any design idea concept - You will see the very thread of thought that caught the investors imaginations. Then on approval of said concept - Suddenly profit margins and savings take precedent, finance not function is now the thread - Viola - another watered down synaptic architectural thought design skeleton to blight the skyline for the next 150 years.
That is why wildetecture plays in a design world where accountants have no comment. Where the analytical's don't hold sway - Because once the concept goes across the threshold of "lets build this" And the rest of the build team saunter in. The end product is always going to be dictated by finance not function.The function of this design building attached to this thread is HQ additions for Nado Storm or the function could be "aesthetics uber alas" No budget constraints - No accountants to be seen for a month of sundays.Sometimes for me, the very rules governing any premise need to be shifted and explored and turned upside down.
i hear horrified gasps and shock horror noises from mostly the architecturally minded folk finding their way to this small post. Fortunately its not many of you and most wont read so far down. - So my rhetoric is completely contained and the architectural world is very safe from this type of radicalized heretical architectural design thinking.
Well for now anyway - Mwahahaha -
