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To understand Moussavi’s contribution, one must first recognize the intellectual trap she seeks to dismantle. During the 19th century and for most of the 20th century, discussions of style were trapped in a binary opposition: pure formalism on one side and pure functionalism on the other. In this traditional view, style was understood simply as "the way of assembling forms," a process exclusively concerned with producing consistency and sameness across architectural forms. If a building looked a certain way, it was either following a historical style (a formalist move) or its form was supposedly a direct, unadorned result of its function (a functionalist move).

The book has also been lauded for successfully navigating a third way beyond the exhausted polemics of postmodernism and deconstruction. It offers a positive, forward-looking agenda for style, not as a nostalgic return to the past or a cynical play of forms, but as a rigorous, analytical, and generative force rooted in the real-world complexity of the everyday. the function of style farshid moussavi pdf