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This question came to mind as I was reading. Where is the boundary between sculpture or a sculptural installation and architecture if any? I am not sure I can give a concrete answer that isn’t filled with my own personal opinion. Both sculpture and architecture use similar principles, practices, methodologies, and deal with similar obstacles to overcome such as: gravity, material cost, structural integrity, scale, and local. On that basis alone I would lump them into the same genre of creation. However some buildings I would not consider to be architecture, simply a structure. Perhaps it is in the “Aura” (if I can borrow the term from W. Benjamin) of the creation that defines it as sculpture or architecture.