In his TED Talk filmed at TEDGlobal London in September 2015, Ole Scheeren eschews what he describes as the ?detrimental straightjacket? of the modernist mantra ?form follows function? in favor a phrase he attributes to Bernard Tschumi, ?form follows fiction.? While Tschumi was referencing how cultural artifacts, such as literature, impact architecture, Scheeren reinterprets the phrase, imagining the stories of building users in order to inform the design process. Scheeren recounts, for example, how the daily activities of CCTV employees, the lifestyles of residents of a Singapore housing block, or the traditional tools of Thai fishermen have informed his various designs for OMA and Büro Ole Scheeren.

In his TED Talk filmed at TEDGlobal London in September 2015, Ole Scheeren eschews what he describes as the ?detrimental straightjacket? of the modernist mantra ?form follows function? in favor a phrase he attributes to Bernard Tschumi, ?form follows fiction.? While Tschumi was referencing how cultural artifacts, such as literature, impact architecture, Scheeren reinterprets the phrase, imagining the stories of building users in order to inform the design process. Scheeren recounts, for example, how the daily activities of CCTV employees, the lifestyles of residents of a Singapore housing block, or the traditional tools of Thai fishermen have informed his various designs for OMA and Büro Ole Scheeren.Of course, this ?fiction? that Scheeren describes, these stories, are ...