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- From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
- Newsgroups: alt.architecture
- Subject: Re: architecture is not art (!)
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 07:15:11 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- Well I'm not an architect (except a computer architect); but I believe
- building architecture and computer architecture are alike in that
- the activity is a combination of art and design of a utilitarian
- object, in which a balance is necessary. If art overpowers utility
- then you get sculpture rather than architecture. If utility overpowers
- art then you get - well I don't know if we even have a name for it,
- but it's boring.
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