Antoine Picon

“It is a fact that the artistic claims of architecture have long been subject to debate; with its succession of structural rules, building codes, and usage constraints, architecture would seem to occupy an ambiguous position with regard to techniques and practices that have a straightforwardly artistic vocation, such as painting and sculpture (despite the undermining of the latter by multimedia). Indeed, it is precisely this ambiguity—this oscillation between art and science, between aesthetic claims and social purposes—that renders architecture so appealing to new generations looking for careers that are reasonably lucrative while also allowing for the expression of individual creativity. Architecture,”
― Antoine Picon, The Materiality of Architecture