todays lesson detailed the idea surrounding form following function. It rather confused me...but I think I almost have my head around it.

For me, form follows function means that anything that is made should be made according to it's functionality. In our lecture we were shown a house where the outside was very plain. this was because the designer had not thought much about the outside at all. They had only designed the inside because that is the functional part of the home, the inside. And that is all that is needed to look good. If we decided then that a door or window is needed in a certain place from the inside , if it looks strange from the outer side of the house it will not matter, because of the rule that we should think about the functioality of the house first, and not worry about appearance.

We cut out blue, red, and yellow shapes to attempt to prove bauhauses form follows function theory true. The verdict? I don't think it worked very well. Most of the class picked random colours according to the shape, rather than the colours Bauhaus said we are all programmed to choose due to the thought of it's function as a shape. Bauhaus said that the circle must be blue, the square must be red and the triangle must be yellow. I can almost see his idea in this because as functions, waves of water can be round, and they are blue. Stop signs are red, and they are sometimes angular in shape like a square. I do not see any resemblence to the triangle however, leaving this theory a rough hypothesis.

Bauhauses idea that form must follow function does not appear to be very consistant. There are never going to always be true examples of this idea in the world because things are constantly changing. He assumed that civilisation has smothered the creativity in design thinks that nature is much more perfectly drafted. However, this is not so. For example, in nature an animal will have certain characteristics that may help the functionality of the animal. The fur, perhaps would be one function as it keeps the animal warm. But When the weather changes say, due to global warming, this function does not follow its form anymore, so it will either need to change and adapt or face over heating and dieing out.

If Bauhaus had researched into his idea he would have realised the flaws within it. Nothing, even in nature istelf has perfect design. Neither can colour be determined merely by the shape or size of something.