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Aesthetic-usability effect

Aesthetic-usability effect

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Aesthetic-usability effect

- Hi, I'm William Lidwell and this is Universal Principles of Design. In this movie, the Aesthetic-Usability Effect, When Perception is Reality. In 1896, in an essay titled The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered, the father of modernist architecture, Louis Sullivan, declared the maxim "form ever follows function" to be no less than a law of nature. He concluded his essay by saying, "when native instinct and sensibility shall "govern the exercise of our beloved art; "when the known law, the respected law, "shall be that form ever follows function; "when our architect shall cease strutting "and prattling handcuffed and vainglorious "in the asylum of a foreign school, "then it may be proclaimed that we are on "the high-road to a natural and satisfying art, "an architecture that will soon become a fine art "in the true, the best sense of the word, "an art that will live because it will be of the people, "for the people, and by the people." Sullivan's commanding rhetoric is hard…

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