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Please answers to the following questions in your own words, citing any sources used as support. Be sure to include examples from both your own experience and course resources. (The Creators by Daniel J.Boorstin) (Min. length 200- toward the questions words).
? Does architecture differ from the other creative mediums discussed in this course? How?
? Are both architecture and writing always art forms?
? How do architecture and writing fit in to the process versus product argument about creativity?
? Consider writers and architects as opposed to artists and musicians. What are the stereotypes associated with each?

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? Does architecture differ from the other creative mediums discussed in this course? How? Architecture is art plus - it must have a practical application, whereas other art does not need to be anything other than pleasing or thought provoking to the viewer. It is a combination of arts, though, but more of a human based purpose. For example, a sculpture can be massive, serve no practical purpose, but it is art - a building must combine the art of the necessity with the art of the aesthetic.

? Are both architecture and writing always art forms? There are differences between art and craft - it is dependent upon the terminology. Architecture in its basest form, is a process of construction; so building or constructing is not necessarily art. It is the design of the building, taking into consideration the environment, integration with humans, the area, and the way it will be ...

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