The question “is architecture art?” is one that has been bandied about for years, and architecture collective Assemble’s recent Turner Prize win invited another round of intense retrospection on the subject.
In 2014, Patrick Schumacher, director of Zaha Hadid Architects, commented that that architects need to “stop confusing architecture and art”, in a rant directed at the judges of the Venice Architecture Biennale.
It is a complex topic, but what is certain is that architectural designs for galleries and art museums are as diverse as the type of art that is exhibited within their walls.
From extravagent, futuristic buildings to projects that are far more understated yet still respond to site and function in a highly imaginative fashion, the 10 designs below allow architecture and art to complement one another, creating a vessel for showcasing artistic creations alongside possibly being an artform themselves.