Detail Function Questions

The author of the passage mentions “Louis Sullivan’s dictum” primarily in order to:

Well done! According to the passage, Yamasaki used "architectural characteristics committed to" Sullivan’s dictum. By providing this information, the author offers an explanation behind Yamasaki’s decisions to do so.

Incorrect. [[snippet]] This answer choice is outside the __scope__ of this passage as the author never suggests that modernist architecture did not care at all about the well-being of the community. In fact, its hopes were that if form did follow function, then lifestyles would also improve.

Incorrect. [[snippet]] While Sullivan’s dictum is often used to explain the tenets of modernist architecture, this answer choice doesn’t fit within the context of the sentence or the paragraph the detail is in. The author has no real need to discuss a _device_ that might help the reader understand modernist architecture. Remember that you are looking for the detail’s function in helping the author’s aims.

Incorrect. [[snippet]] This answer choice doesn’t explain the function that simple lines should ostensibly follow. Thus, the dictum alone doesn’t _suggest a way of understanding_ the existence of simple lines in modernist architecture.

Incorrect. [[snippet]] This answer choice is __too general__. While Sullivan’s dictum provides some context for the aesthetic goals and visions of modernist architecture, the author's intentions are more closely related to Yamasaki's goals in this paragraph.

offer an explanation for Yamasaki’s decisions when designing Pruitt-Igoe.

suggest that modernist architecture concerned itself more with functionality than with quality of life.

provide a device for understanding modernist architecture’s underlying efforts to improve life through design.

suggest a way of understanding why the modernist vision called for simple lines in form.

emphasize the aesthetic and idealistic goals of the Pruitt-Igoe project.