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Originally Posted by texcolo
If you want people to value you and your opinions, you have to back them up. Why are things rubbish?
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i'm not here to prove myself to anyone; i'm not here to make people think i'm a master of rhetoric. i really don't care what people think of what i have to say.
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Originally Posted by texcolo
As for art vs. architecture, my friend, they are but inseparable. They're like peanut butter and chocolate in a Reese's. They make each other better.
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... art and architecture are so very different. architecture is about problem solving, creating space, making things work and function... it is something that continuously affects every aspect of our lives. is there an artistic qualities (harmony, balance, rhythm...) to the outcome? sure... but unless you're frank gehry, any aesthetic aspect of a design is very much
secondary to the pragmatic needs of that design. architecture is a skill, it can be taught and learned. ask piano, nouvel, koolhaas, even calatrava or any of the great architects of our time if they consider themselves artists. the answer is no.
(charlie rose asks this question and i've only heard gehry and holl say they consider themselves artistic, but not artists. calatrava acknowledges that he is an artist, but that it is separate from him being an engineer or architect)
conversely, art is about making a pretty picture. or sculpting some super esoteric assemblage of steel. it is something that is based purely on feeling. and has no pragmatic use.