Form represents the whole – the complete ideal – the totality of possibility inherent in the idea.
Form, in that sense, is the boundary to the infinite becoming inherent in an idea.
On the other hand, function represents the manifestation – the “active possibility” – born out of the ideal – stated or unstated.
Form and Function – ideal and its practice – in situ – are therefore to be understood as a whole beyond context, and the same whole in context.
In this view, neither can form follow function nor function follow form – both must co-emerge as the joint process of articulation and application of the same ideal.
Seen another way, to know any ideal one must articulate it and one must applicationize it.
In the articulation of the “form” the ideal reveals itself.
In the application, the ideal reveals itself within the context of life itself.
