Does Form Follow Function, Really?

Louis Sullivan said that form follows function, but does it really? Can you tell whether a building is a theater, a library, or a museum just by looking at the outside? In a research study at Ohio State University, 160 people from three distant cities were shown pictures of buildings and asked to guess the purpose of those buildings. Most people couldn't. Could you?

• Research Report: For Many Buildings, Form Doesn't Follow Function
• You Tell Us: Does form follow function? Should it?