Lying abed, looking at the Emerald City of unfettered finance capital coruscating across the rooftops of the Victorian corridor streets that Le Corbusier and Howard so decried, I can appreciate that enacted here is the most important axiom of contemporary architecture - form follows finance.

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During the Romanesque period (1000-1200), narration in church architecture took the form of relief sculpture.

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Purists define peer-to-peer as an architecture devoid of any form of centralisation.

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Choice architecture is usually the most benign form of paternalism that behavioral economics has brought us in practice.

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Its setting is unusual and its circular form radically breaking traditional models of architecture.

CNN: Spectacular forms in wood

Thanks to Samsung, they made the leap to the ARM architecture, enabling longer battery life in a thin form factor.

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Although this teaching lacked the heroic content Sullivan felt architecture required, he did draw from it his famous dictum about form and function.

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It may be that PoMo quotation, of which a gutful has been served up over the past 25 years, served a useful purpose in reminding architecture's public that, yes, there was indeed a vast repertory of form and ornament on which early, messianic Modernism had turned its back.

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