¶ Form Cannot Follow Function
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RBF Definitions
"The general principle of producing higher performance with ever less inputs of energy, time, and weight of material per any given level of accomplished functioning, produced sumtotally a trend toward doing so much with so little that we have now arrived at a condition where performance is approximately invisible.
"Form is no longer following function. Functions have become formless. World humanity’s reality of 1900 consisted of everything people could smell, see, touch, and hear. Now, three-quarters of a century later, 99.9 percent of all humanity’s practical everyday, worked-with realities are only instrumentally (non-sensorially) apprehendable and employable by humans. The electromagnetic Universe’s realities are coped with only instrumentally through macro step-up and micro step-down transformers of information.
“Therefore, I pointed out to the Habitat audiences that they should disregard their conditioned reflexes which spontaneously look only for immediately visible manifestation of new and improved ways of living.”
¶ Citations
- ACCOMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.12; 20 Sep’76
