By analyzing ten examples of buildings that embody the human
experience at an extraordinary level, this book clarifies the
central importance of the role of function in architecture as a
generative force in determining built form. Using familiar
twentieth-century buildings as case studies, the authors present
these from a new perspective, based on their functional design
concepts. Here Grabow and Spreckelmeyer expand the definition of
human use to that of an art form by re-evaluating these buildings
from an aesthetic and ecological view of function. Each building is
described from the point of view of a major functional concept or
idea of human use which then spreads out and influences the spatial
organization, built form and structure. In doing so each building
is presented as an exemplar that reaches beyond the pragmatic
concerns of a narrow program and demonstrates how functional
concepts can inspire great design, evoke archetypal human
experience and help us to understand how architecture embodies the
deeper purposes and meanings of everyday life.
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