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the lines between art and architecture, Richard Meier replies, "No. I'm not surę there's so much of the blurring of the lines. I think it's simply that morę artists want to be architects. Maybe historically morę architects have wanted to be artists, but I think that today morę and morę artists really would like to make architecture. Frank Stella is a good example, and a number of projects which he has madę in Europę are for buildings, and in a sense incorporated in the conception of those buildings is the artist's view. I think that the beginning points are usually different for an artist than an architect. The artist has an idea of what might be, and then finds someone who wants that idea. Generally an architect waits for someone to come to him with a pro-ject and then says, 'I have an idea for what you can do." As Richard Meier says, he draws a linę "between the architecture of artists and the architecture of architects," but he does not hesitate to cali his own Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts "a work of art." 'I consider that most of my buildings are works of art," he says, "but I have observed a number of artists who are trying to do architecture. On the surface, one would say that could be by an architect, or could be by an artist, but I believe that the approach of the artist is fundamentally different from that of the architect. As an architect you have built-in judgments about entry, about accessibility, about move-ment, about how a structure might be inhabited, rather than being simply concerned about the form and relationship of the construction, or constructional elements."²⁴

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