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Louis Sullivan employed the phrase ‘form follows function’ and it became seemingly most apt to Europeans developing this kind of simplified building. So form follows function is the phrase that most characterizes our cultural experience in the arts since the mid-tenties. . . More than a generation has been preoccupied at the cultural level with the idea that you do things in a very direct honest right way and that it should be visible how you do it. When you learn how to do that in a becoming manner then form is following function. . .
So the Germans said why can’t we take this good logical kind of building. All it needs is a little refining. Give it a little cleanliness and we could give up all the orders of architecture and turn out something very pleasing in its own right. So this began the Bauhaus kind of viewpoint and the development of architecture which is today called the international style.
