This analysis reveals the conflict between form and function across architectural typologies from the late 20th century, suggesting varied responses among architectural theorists.
The relationship between form and function is probably one of the greatest areas of tension and conflict in architecture, and probably every architect or architectural theorist has already dealt with it. It has been and continues to be the cause of debates and discussions, some of them emotional. The way in which this area of tension is dealt with varies between individual architects and architectural movements. In the following, the relationship between form and function in four architectural movements of the second half of the 20th century will be analysed and compared by using one example of the same typology for each.
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