COURT

IS EV~LVED

FROM

A P~RTICULAR TERMS

INTENT

AND FUNCTI~N,

IT MUST

BE SUO~ECTEO

39

TO AN ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPED

IN GENERIC

BEFORE

ITS ORIGINAL

SELECTION

CAN BE JUSTIFIED

APPROPRIATELY.

ALL SPECIFIC

FORM

IN ARCHITECTURE

IS

CONCEIVED

INITIALLY

FROM A CRITI~UE INDICATES

OF

rwo OF THE ELEMENTS, THAT A PRIORITY THOSE MUST

INTENT AND FUNCTION.

A FACT WHICH CLEARLY

BE GIVEN TO CONSIOERATIONS

OF INTENT AND FUNCTION OF INTENT WilL THE PRIMARY

OVER PERHAPS 'O: rwin Panofsky, '~eaning in .r t s ! f,. Y. 1955 ! .11 f,'r a o i vcu ss lon of 'invention'.
~L

OF STRUCTURE

AND TECHNICS. THE WORD BEFORE

FURTHER

DEFINlriOM

SUBSTANTIATE OF A THING.

THIS POINTI FOR EXAMPLE,

IS HERE USED TO MEAN WE CAN BUilD

CONCEPTION

Lr,,,,

v: xu a l

A 'TEMPLE'

WE MUST HAVE HAD AN

ASSOCIAT~:;

z
IDEA OR CONCEPT 'TEMPLE'.

OWING

TO OUR EXPE~[NTIAL THE CONCEPT

AND HISTORICAL 'TEMPLE'

IONS IT IS DIFFICULT 'TEMPLE' CLOSE

FOR US TO ISOLATE SPECIFIC

FRQM THE FUNCTION HENCE HAVI THE

OR FROM WHATEVER BETWEIN

FORM WE ASSOCIATE

'TEMPLE'. ALWAVS

lrwin ~anofsky. 'to perc~ive the relation of signiflcdtlon is to separ~te the idea of the concept to e ~xpres~ed from thu means of
<sxpres,.inr) it'. Slmllrly'to

ASSOCIATION

INTENT ANO FUNCTION' A FUNCTION 'TEMPLE'

WE MUST TO IT.

THE CONCEPT

OF SOMETHING IT IS EVIDENT

BEFORE

WE CAN ATTRI8UTE

By WAV OF ILLUSTRATION:
THE SAME SPECIFIC

~~rcbive th~ relation of construe ti :11' i tis n ece saar-y to separate the idta of fun~tion from the
,'.:ans:Jf f u l f I l l l nq

THAT THE SAME CONCEPT

DID NOT PRODUCE

It.

,",nlng

and

t,,,, Visual <.Irts' f/.Y.

1955

FORM FOR THE GREEKS AGES. INDEED IT NOW

AS IT DID FOR THE ROMANS BECOMES CLEAR

OR FOR THE PEOPLE IS A TERN WITH MUST

OF THE MIDDLE
AN

p9.

THAT FUNCTION

INCONVIENT-

LY WIDE RANGE OF MEANINGS STAGE SETWEEN SENSES THE PHYSICAL

AND APPLICATIONSI OR UTILITARIAN OBVIOUS

A DISTINCTION

BE MADE AT THIS IR SYMBOLIC

OF

AND THE METAPHYSICAL LEVEL 'FUNCTION'

OF THE WORD.

AT ITS MOST PROPER

CAN BE THOUGHT STATED

AS AN ACTIVITY MGVEMENT, WHICH

OR USAGE

TO ANYTHING. THE RESPONSES

IF THE FUNCTION STAIR, RESULT

IS VERTICAL

THEN WE CAN PRODUCE A MORE

RAMP, OR LIFTt

EACH OF FORM.

WOULD CENERATE

OR LESS CONSTANT

IN TF.RMS OF SPECIFIC IS A RE~PONSE TO

IT IS NECESSARY FUNCTION PLUS

TO NOTE THAT THI~ PRODUCTION INTENT,

OF A FORM

AND NOT TO INTENT ALONE.

IT IS ALSO NECESSARY

TO NOTE