ming ornament in its architect. He held a view like that ornamentation is not only a resource of criminals, but also creates a crime by destroying national economy as well as development of culture. It is because in a rapid development country, ornament is no longer a natural invention from its culture, therefore, it can only be concluded as a degenerative negative trend.
Modernist architects like Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Miles Vander Rohe are most loyal companion who have the similar opinion with Adolf Loos, they claim that both “ornamentation is crime” and “form follows function” are important, which play increasingly significant role for designer to obey, especially in the fields of architecture design, and in other fields., they are also moral principle for these artists.
It is known that form should follow function has been a very popular credo among all the modern architects since 1930s. Accompanying with that, ornamentation is on the opposite location whichare always used to indicate decorative, luxury and superfluous elements which were widely used in modern architecture. So,in the architecture industry, professional designers call it as ornament. However to Sullivan himself, during prosperous period of his work and career, he didn’t apply this principle dogmatically into his design and work. As a matter of fact, his design style which applied in his work could be spare and crisp, sometimes he decorate their plain surface in different forms, for example, by using very natural and organic object like vines and ivy, or pretty geometric design, or interlace form which is drawn by Irish design heritage.
3 Application in architecture
The aphorism of “form follows function”was quoted by an Lippincott’s Magazine to generalize the essential of architectural design. This kind of three-worded Philosophy of art has made numerous treaties and regulations become gloominess and useless. This phrase which put forward by Louis H. Sullivan can be perfectly suited for describing the whole architectural design and composition.
Generally speaking, each architectural work contains a real “function”, and a purpose of function is considered as tool to measure and characterize its “form”. In other words, function is always being served by structure of architecture and identify the form in order to make form perfectly adapted to each other. Thus try to build a infallibly system and design of architecture which is not lack of cultural. To what extent, it can be easily result in an outcome, architect is scientific and practical, but it can not avoided to be boring and lack of interest, even though lack of creativity, as the architecture is built based on the principle that form follows historic precedent, which represents as randomly each architecture for which has not successfully offer correct mask which is academically and historically, and which considers as heterodoxy trying to achieve.
Returning back to the American artist Adolf Loos, which have resonance with another German artist Miles, they proposed the art and architecture should wholly be amended and adjusted according to architecture. Especially replacing ornament which was elaborately artistically made. They advice to use simple and straightforward display to showcase the materials and forms as their originally and innate visual appearance, that those cultural elements should not be controlled by archit
