Frances to Luis with thanks for the leads...
(1) The offshore oilrig converted into luxury living quarters
would likely never be accepted in Canada near Newfoundland where
one sank in a storm, because it was not authorized to be a
"vessel" in law nor required to have a "captain" on board.
(2) Most engineered constructs like highway bridges and tourist
towers are usually occupied by humans, while many engineered
constructs like hydro dams and electric pylons are not, but to
exclude some of these engineered constructs as architecture only
because they fail to usually be occupied would seem to be a
somewhat arbitrary determination.
(3) In regard to making a define of architecture and making a
theory of architecture, it seems that the tendency for many
experts is to claim that there are some built objects that are
not architecture and some that are architecture, but for reasons
that remain unclear to me. There is also a further claim that
there are then some objects of architecture that are not art and
some that are art, yet for reasons that too are still vague for
me.
(4) It is likely that the least criteria of what makes an
ordinary object architectonic and what makes extraordinary
architecture artistic must rest with not only aesthetics but also
with ethics and logics.
