Is Architecture Art?

 

In the reading by Ellen Durham-Jones, architecture is described as the overlapping of business and art. In an overall context, I feel that ‘art’ is not quite the right word. Art feels like something someone makes a certain way because they wanted it to be that way. Art could be the Junkspace that Koolhaas refers to, building without context and changing the layers as one sees fit. I could also see art as how we used to do architecture, when the well-known figures of today built what they thought would look good. Today, especially in the professional setting, architects do have a say, but also have to take into account what their client wants, even if it isn’t necessarily a style or layout, they themselves would like. As Professor Franco said in class, we are the generation of architects that use social issues to mold our designs. Maybe a better description could be business and creation?