Annmarie Adam's book Medicine by design (2007) examines how hospital architecture shaped and responded to changing ideas about medicine and its place in the urban realm. It uses the development of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal (1893–1943) as its central case study.
An enduring theme in design is the relation between form and function. For example, is there an ideal form that corresponds to a given function? How do form and function relate and develop over time?
In a Wired article, Sam Lubell describes a building that incorporates emojis into its exterior. Dutch architect Changiz Tehrani decided to enliven the facade of an apartment building in Vathorst by having emojis molded in relief in intersections of its surface elements.
No particular message was intended, says Tehrani: "Because the building is very strong, even severe, we wanted some funniness to lighten it up."
In 1943, after the British Parliament buildings had been destroyed by a bomb, Winston Churchill mandated that they be rebuilt as before. He justified his decision as follows: