Topic
Functionalism (architecture)
About: Functionalism (architecture) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6 publications have been published within this topic receiving 223 citations. The topic is also known as: Functionalist architecture.
Papers
Book•
1 Jan 1982
TL;DR: The idea of modern architecture was introduced by Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy in the early 1900s as discussed by the authors, and the idea of a modern architecture in the 19th century industrialization and the city - the skyscraper as type and symbol the search for new forms and the problem of ornament rationalism, the engineering tradition, and reinforced concrete arts and crafts ideals in Britain and the USA responses to mechanization.
Abstract: Part 1 The formative strands of Modern architecture: the idea of a Modern architecture in the 19th century industrialization and the city - the skyscraper as type and symbol the search for new forms and the problem of ornament rationalism, the engineering tradition, and reinforced concrete arts and crafts ideals in Britain and the USA responses to mechanization - the Deutscher Werkbund and futurism the architectural system of Frank Lloyd Wright national romanticism and classical transformations cubism and new conceptions of space. Part 2 The crystallization of Modern architecture between the wars: Le Corbusier's quest for ideal form Walter Gropius, German expressionism, and the Bauhaus architecture and revolution in Russia skyscraper and suburb - the USA between the wars the ideal community - alternatives to the industrial city the international style, the individual talent, and the myth of functionalism the image and idea of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy the continuity of older traditions nature and the machine - Mies van der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930s totalitarian critiques of the Modern movement the spread of modern architecture to Britain and Finland universal models, national inflections and regional accents. Part 3 Transformation and dissemination after 1940: modern architecture in the USA - immigration and consolidation form and meaning in the late works of Le Corbusier the Unite d'Habitation at Marseilles as a collective housing prototype Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian developments disjunctions and continuities in the Europe of the 1950s the process of absorption - Latin America, Australia, Japan Louis I. Kahn and the challenge of monumentality architecture and anti-architecture in Britain crises and critiques in the 1960s modernity and tradition in the Third World architectural types and urban fragments - new directions in the 1970s. Part 4 Changing ideals in the late 20th century: modern architecture and the historical sense world cultures and local identities traditions of the modern towards architecture, beyond style.
165 citations
10 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that several aspects of Fine Art movements are relevant to business simulation-game design and suggest that these (realism, aesthetics and functionalism) can be used to position business simulation games and define existing and emergent simulation movements.
Abstract: Business Simulation-Game design is arguably a creative art and like painting and architecture there are several movements that describe the artistic style of individual business simulation-games. This paper describes that several aspects of Fine Art movements are relevant to business simulation-game design. These (realism, aesthetics and functionalism) can be used to position Business Simulation-Games and define existing and emergent simulation movements. The paper suggests these movements are the established Real World movement and the emergent movements of Teach and Murff’s Small Simulations, Serious Games and Hall’s Corporate Cartoons. Each of these movements is positioned in the realism, functionalism and engagement (aesthetics) space and parallels drawn with the relevant Fine Art movements. Besides positioning the movements the paper critiques individual movements based on their position in the realism, functionalism and engagement space.
8 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the relation of mental events to brain events is investigated using Pylyshyn's (1980) notion of a functional architecture, which provides a more useful ontological framework for understanding how neuroscience and cognitive science can relate to each other.
Abstract: Discussion within philosophy on the relation of cognition to neural phenomena, or of mind to body, has focused on two views in recent decades. Both views accept that mental events themselves are brain events with physical descriptions. But whereas the Identity Theory holds out the hope of nomological connections between types of brain events and types of mental events, Functionalism denies any such relation. Identity theorists envision an ultimate reduction of cognitive psychology to neuroscience whereas most functionalists deny that possibility. (Australian Identity Theorists such as Smart, 1959, and Armstrong, 1968, present that Identity Theory as a version of Functionalism. Smart’s topic-neutral specification of psychological events, for example, specifies mental events in terms of their interactions with other mental events or with sensory stimuli or behaviors. When I speak of Functionalism, however, I shall be referring to the American variety which sees Functionalism as an alternative to the Identity Theory.) This paper proposes that we approach the relation of mental events to brain events in a quite different way, using Pylyshyn’s (1980) notion of a functional architecture. After an overview of the conflict between Identity Theory and Functionalism, I will turn to explicating the notion of a functional architecture and show how it provides a more useful ontological framework for understanding how neuroscience and the emerging discipline of cognitive science can relate to each other.
6 citations
Book•
1 Dec 1996
TL;DR: Topographies of contemporary architecture Mies van der Rohe and minimalism architecture and existentialism weak architecture from autonomy to untimeliness place - permanence or production difference and limit - individualism in contemporary architecture high tech - functionalism or rhetoric the work of architecture in the age of mechanical reproduction sado-masochism - criticism and architectural practice as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Topographies of contemporary architecture Mies van der Rohe and minimalism architecture and existentialism weak architecture from autonomy to untimeliness place - permanence or production difference and limit - individualism in contemporary architecture high tech - functionalism or rhetoric the work of architecture in the age of mechanical reproduction sado-masochism - criticism and architectural practice.
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