Relationship between Architecture and Sculpture

What is art? There are many definitions of art like art is the aesthetic exploitation of familiarity vs. surprise, art is the imposition of order on disorder, art is the creation of illusions, art is a desire to convey meanings, art is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination typically in a visual form and so on. Art has many forms like, painting, sculptures, music and dance. All art forms are based on creative ideas.

Architecture is also a form of art, habitability is its main part. Habitability requires structure to built, then 3d form and space comes in place. Sculptures are also 3 dimensional they have mass and volume. Architecture and sculptures share mostly aspects.  Which are following: -

Architecture : Non sculptural, planer, gap-site, Function, Spatial quality, Scale, Psychological comfort, environmental, etc.

Sculpture: Non habitable, non functional, scale,

Overlap: Form, volume, visual mass, profile/compositional silhouettes, scale of context. Material and technology.

  

By analyzing the overlap following questions come:-

·         Does every building have sculptural quality?

·         Is 3d form is necessary to express and idea?

·         Sculptural vs. spatial quality in architecture?

·         Idea behind a building design important?

·         How architecture/sculpture evoke emotions in observer?

·         Can sculpture become functional? Is it then architecture?

·         Sculpture is what everyday object removed from its context, does architecture also be out of context?

·         Contemporary architecture like Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry, are they architectural sculpture?

·         Does every building also have idea behind it?