What “Art + Architecture” Really Means Today

Art and architecture are often described as separate fields with different goals: one expressive, the other functional. In reality, the boundary between them has always been porous.

Architecture is experienced emotionally long before it is analyzed intellectually. Art is often spatial long before it is labeled conceptual. Both disciplines shape perception, movement, and memory.

In contemporary practice, artists regularly engage architectural questions — scale, material, permanence, public interaction. Architects, in turn, make aesthetic and symbolic decisions that influence how spaces feel, not just how they function.

What does it mean to inhabit a space?

What does it mean to move through a city?

How do walls, images, light, and materials shape behavior?

These questions sit at the heart of the Intersections Forum.

Rather than defining art and architecture by professional boundaries, the forum approaches them as interconnected ways of thinking about human experience. It invites participants to consider not only what they create, but how those creations are lived with.