Form and Function

Remarks on Art, Design and Architecture

Horatio Greenough

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9780520311978
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: History of Architecture

This book offers sound advice to practitioners of all the arts, and sound reasoning to students of aesthetics. Stating his principles in the mid-nineteenth century, Greenough was three generations ahead of his time. He reads today like a progressive contemporary, and many an architect, artist, and student of art may benefit by what he has to say.   It was Greenough, not Whitman, who first protested against meaningless ornamentation. It was Greenough, not Ruskin, who first expressed the idea that the buildings are art of a pepole express their morality. It was Greenough, no Le Corbusier who first said that buildings designed primarily for us "may be called machines." It was Greenough, not Louis Sullivan, who first enunciated the principle that, in architecture, form must follow function.  
This book offers sound advice to practitioners of all the arts, and sound reasoning to students of aesthetics. Stating his principles in the mid-nineteenth century, Greenough was three generations ahead of his time. He reads today like a progressive conte

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction, by Erle Loran
• Aesthetics at Washington
• Remarks on American Art
• American Architecture8
• Relative and Independent Beauty
• Burke on the Beautiful
• Criticism in Search of Beauty
• Structure and Organization
• Fashion in Relation to Progress
• Index