"Modernism may claim the phrase "form follows function," but for any kind of life beyond the vegetal, the typical modernist glass box is the least functional form possible."

-- Arrol Gellner, "A window into 'glass box' flaws" (Source)

A window into 'glass box' flaws

For occupants, form fails function test

By Arrol Gellner November 7, 2010

In 1913, Walter Gropius completed an unusual shoe-last factory in the sleepy German town of Alfeld-an-der-Leine, and ever since, architects have been obsessed with building glass boxes. Alfeld is where glass-wall architecture quite literally turned the corner, dematerializing what had always been the most solid part of a building into ethereal lightness. >>Read More