Sentences with phrase «such utilitarian functions»

Rarely do buildings serving such utilitarian functions get much architecture, usually they are banal boxes turned out by engineering firms.

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Attitudes that exist on the periphery of one's psyche, such as those related to the knowledge or utilitarian functions will be more susceptible to modification than will those that are central to identity formation and continuity.

Underlying this investigation is the suggestion that these two arenas are distinguished by their use - value: design is explicitly utilitarian in its reinventions of items such as silverware, furniture, lighting, etc, while artworks are made without any practical function in mind, their central utility being conceptual.

Fixtures of the home, such as garden hoses and fences, break from their utilitarian functions to wilt, slither, and pose in the gallery space.

As such, this exhibition proposes the idea of a waster as the spark for the creative act, beyond its traditionally utilitarian function.