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“emotional architecture”—a concept which also lends the title to this exhibition. According to Barragán, “It is very important for humankind that architecture should move by its beauty; if there are many equally valid technical solutions to a problem, the one which offers the user a message of beauty and emotion, that one is architecture.”

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Anna Mackenzie • Knowing it all vs. figuring it out

“The problems of “art” as architectural aspiration comes down to these:

Art is proudly non-functional and impractical.
Art reveres the new and despises the conventional.
Architectural art sells at a distance.

Architect Peter Calthorpe maintains that many of the follies of his profession would vanish if architects simply decided that what they do is cr

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My working definition of art is thus derived in part from both a moderate institutional theory that recognizes the important role that the museum space plays in determining meaning and mediating a history, tradition, and theory of what occurs in that space, and an ecological theory of art that affirms that in its making and viewing, art does someth

Daniel A. Siedell • God in the Gallery (Cultural Exegesis): A Christian Embrace of Modern Art

An architecture is a hierarchical system of parts that come together to solve timeless design problems.