SnokenKeekaGuardArchitecture is supposed to be art. The Greeks knew this 2,500 years ago.
OwOarchistEh… Architecture can be art…
But first and foremost, architecture should be aiming to make comfortable, convenient, and useful places for people to live or do things.
Art is a nice bonus (if budget and time constraints allow), but it’s perfectly valid to build ugly utilitarian buildings if those buildings accomplish what you need them to do.
Absolutely agree that architecture has to be functional and convenient. But we shouldn’t be so fast to exclude aesthetics. It plays a major part in well-being. Of course, it’s more important to have housing at all. However, comfortability is not restricted to usability only but should also tickle our neurons.