DIVORCE BETWEEN FORM AND FUNCTION.

Going from conception to construction, architects should have a pre-conceived idea and adopt it to reality. The divorce between design and construction is a recent phenomena that arises from the divorce between form and function due to the arising mass produced architecture, which Luis Sullivan opposed by his theory of 'form follows function'. 

Villa Savoye, Poissey.

Along came Le Corbusier with his theory of "a house is a machine for living in". Yet he said ".. an architect arranges form, realizes an order which is a pure creation of his spirit; by these forms and shapes he affects our senses to an acute degree and provokes plastic emotions; by this relationship he creates, he wars profound echoes in us, he gives us the measure of an order which we feel to be in  accordance with that of the world, he determines the various movement of our heart and of our understanding; it is then that we experience sense of beauty."



By saying this, its concluded that he thought that the same basic forms were used by architects of all ages to express these “echoes” of the society of the time. He drew a Domino concept where a grid of supports and continuous load-bearing ceilings provide a skeleton which allows an endless variety of plans to be created by the use of non-structural interior walls. In that concept, he's again considering what the building needs in order to function before 'designing' its form. His idea of a house being 'a machine for living in' developed until it reached its climax in Villa Savoye, Poissey in 1928.

Architects of modernity experience compact urbanism which addressed the requirements of contemporary comfort and inverting the trend of colonizing, alienating and globalization into a creative participatory diversity. On the contrary, industrialization was from the start a part of thinking behind modern architecture where buildings were becoming designed in a way that resembles designing other 'objects' from the automobiles to the coffee-machine, and in a strict sense, to industrialize is to mass produce and with building it started off with doors and windows and evaluated into every element of the system being prefabricated. This coexistence of industrialized elements incorporated in architecture with the repetition of techniques is exactly what Antonio Sant'Ellia was against when he claimed that 'since the eighteenth century, there has been no more architecture' and that architects refuse to create new styles and insist on copying models of centuries ago neglecting the needs of a modern life, he tried to encourage a change in architects' state of mind, he wanted them to start industrializing their architectural techniques to go along with the industrialized, modernized, more needy life. he wanted practical and light architecture as opposed to monumental and static saying "every generation must build its own city. This constant renewal of the architectonic environment will contribute to the victory of futurism.." which will hence be progress in the world of architecture.

 by: David Castillo

This link conveys the idea of industrialization through mass production in architecture.
""Thinking reasonable" or "Mass-Production houses"?
Le Corbusier in 1920 defended and encourage for the mass-production spirit. The spirit to create, live and conceive mass-production houses. The revolution of "House-Machine".
But what about now? Nowadays we are asking for the opposite, the reasonable architecture, the sustainable architecture, which focuses on the human needs and resources. Thinking twice before producing massively."
Mass Producing Vs. Thinking Reasonable by Julia Marba.