The primary factor is proportions.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.