""When form follows function architecture is limited to utilitarian problem solving. It offers no more than is asked of it," architect Ole Scheeren said during the Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Macau on Tuesday. "Architecture needs to go beyond the plan, program and diagram," he added. "We think of buildings as living organisms...Narrative stories anticipate the buildings that we design, but the buildings write their own stories when they come to life.""
""U.S. architect Louis Sullivan, known as the father of the skyscraper, coined the phrase "form ever follows function" in his 1896 essay, "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered". His argument was that a building's form-how it looks-derives from how people use it. Two centuries later, that guiding principle of modern architecture is getting turned on its head-or at least placed on its side.""
Louis Sullivan originated the maxim that a building's form derives from its use. Contemporary practice is challenging that premise by prioritizing narrative, experience and expressive form over pure utilitarian function. Ole Scheeren argues that function-only architecture limits problem solving and delivers only what is requested, and that architecture should move beyond plans, programs and diagrams. Scheeren treats buildings as living organisms whose anticipated narratives are completed when occupied. Signature projects include the looped, angular CCTV headquarters in Beijing and the pixelated Mahanakhon tower in Bangkok with terraces and a rooftop glass observation area.
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