a chair problem, pencil and marker on paper

• You make a chair. You design it a special way because Mr. Smith ordered it for his salon. And you, being a good worker, you design it according to assessed principles, like the width of Mr. Smith’s behind. So your chair becomes an exhibit at the gentleman’s salon. That is architecture for Private Individual.
• Or on the other hand, you make a chair for the city and the municipality clinches it at a park. Years pass by and old ladies come to rest, there is someone who ties his shoelaces and pigeons make a use of it too. Dogs make their need at the legs and loved ones carve their names on. But it is still the same chair you made, about 10 years ago, and it is under the rain, the sun, the dust, dirty, and someone in great despair, broke a leg of it. That is public architecture.
• But at some given moment, someone looks at it, and gazes at the magic moment of the conception of the idea or the greatness of a design. And thus takes it home, cleans it and puts it on a stand, with glass and ropes around it. People then say “oh it is indeed beautiful” That is museum architecture.