The Importance Of Architecture Is Art

The idea of explaining what architecture is not, is controversial. The reason being that architecture might mean different things to different people, but there are certain aspects that are often taken for granted in architecture when in reality they are not under the architecture’s role.
Perhaps it is more easy to explain What architecture is not by identifying What architecture is, as was done by Nick in the previous presentation. So, from what has been said, what do you think architecture is?

ARCHITECTURE IS NOT ART.
Any one of you thinks that architecture is Art?
Why? Why not?
It might be useful to identify what is understood by the word Art. In his book “The Invention of Art”, Larry Shiner identifies the origins of the word as meaning …show more content…
Art itself can be anything the artist wants, no matter how dreadful, and it does not really affect us.
In recent times, but not only, there has been a lot of discussion about what is the ultimate purpose of architecture. One of these definitions is indeed that Architecture is Art. In fact, architects such as Philip Johnson, a Modernist Architect, states that “Architecture is art, nothing else” whilst Richard Meier, a renowned Pritzker winner, declares that Architecture is in fact “the greatest of the arts”. But this idea was disagreed by others such as Lance Hosey, an American architect specialising in sustainability. He states that this is the least useful definition of all, because apart from …show more content…
Whereas architectural photography is empty of people, because the latter normally take away the attention from the space itself, in recent years the finalists seem to focus more on the people and less on the buildings. PICTURES –