Sentences with phrase «valued function over form»

For Sottsass, creating a lexicon of design that incorporated emotive, sensorial and humanist concerns was a rebellion against post-war rationalist architecture that valued function over form, and left human nature largely out of the architectural equation.

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Warning: If you value form over function, do not even think about buying the Kindle Fire.

The SQ mobile app is pretty — and values form over function, so I'd recommend to stick with their web site, it's much more functional!

As notions of what constitutes «Art» have changed over the centuries, so too, has the late twentieth - century view of «Design», with the advent of critical design; celebrated designers from Ron Arad and Daniel Weil to partnership Dunne & Raby, and Konstantin Grcic challenge the concept of function, use, form, and value.

Questions demanding more detailed description of the form, disputes over the historical function of art and what constitutes its value continue to inflame art critics and historians.