{"product_id":"is-architecture-art-by-john-macarthur-9781350147706","title":"Is Architecture Art?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year Award 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIs architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and sculptures, or does their fundamentally functional nature mean they cannot be considered pure works of art?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eQuestions of architecture, art, and aesthetics do not allow for simple answers. However, by asking such questions, we can usefully reveal the ways in which the concepts and meanings of architecture have changed over the centuries, and how they continue to change in the contemporary era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIs Architecture Art?\u003c\/em\u003e explores the key conceptual questions about the aesthetic appreciation of architecture and its persistently contested status as an artform. It engages the work of thinkers ranging from Hume and Kant to Adorno, Tafuri, and Rancière, and draws on accessible and thought-provoking accounts of historical and contemporary architectural and art theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaking novel approaches to issues that will be familiar to the practising architect, it shows how aesthetics and art theory can open up and illuminate architectural theory, issue by issue. \u003cem\u003eIs Architecture Art?\u003c\/em\u003e will provoke discussion and debate among architects and architectural theorists, and force a new understanding of the purpose of architectural practice in the contemporary era as the concepts of 'art', 'the arts', and of the creative economy have shifted and blurred as never before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340875940076,"sku":"9781350147706","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19389343482668.jpg?v=1772174006","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/is-architecture-art-by-john-macarthur-9781350147706","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}