TY - BOOK AU - Moussavi,Farshid AU - Scelsa,Jonathan A., Mary Crettier [Editor] TI - The fuction of style T2 - Function SN - 9781940291307 AV - NA2750 M68 2014 U1 - 729 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York / Cambridge, Massachusetts / London PB - Actar / Harvard University Graduate school of design / Functionlab KW - Architectural design KW - Architectural rendering KW - Architecture Aesthetics KW - Architecture KW - Psychological aspects KW - Architecture, Modern N1 - Include Bibliography; The function of style / Farshid Moussavi -- Functions -- Residing 1922-2012 -- Working 1921-2014 -- Residing and working 1909-2014 -- Learning 1926-2011 -- Reading and research 1920-2010 -- Viewing exhibitions 1922-2012 -- Viewing a performance 1938-2012 -- Watching sports 1927-2012 -- Shopping 1905-2004 -- Travelling by airplane 1935-2008 -- N2 - During the 19th and most of the 20th century, discussions of style revolved around pure formalism or pure functionalism. Style, as the way of assembling forms, was trapped in producing consistency and sameness across architectural forms. The book ' The Function of Style' is the third in a series at Harvard GSD which focused at researching a contemporary idea of style in architecture. The previous publication, The Function of Form, investigated the architecture of the latter part of the 20th century which defies the senselessness and anonymity of the early 20th century city. The aim was to establish whether the systems of differentiation identified earlier were exploring their style as formalism or they were based on a new idea of style that would work with form and function simultaneously as a way to use form to subvert function as set out for each type by early 20th century modernism. The book ' The Function of Style' continues to interrogate the form - function relationship of those projects. It focuses particularly on the history of drawing techniques of describing different concepts of function. All will be shown through drawings that describe among other criteria the structural function [arrangement of activities or materials], the physical function [such as acoustics, traffic, lighting], and the psychological function or the social function of built forms ER -