Abstract
When Nikolaus Pevsner wrote, "A bicycle shed is a building. Lincoln Cathedral is a piece ofarchitecture" his criteria was that the term architecture applied only to buildings designed with a viewto 'aesthetic appeal'. What constitutes 'aesthetic appeal' come to mean the aesthetic purity, whichdates back to the birth of exhibition space based on the spatial detachment, which, unlike other arts,architecture has difficult rising. This was what happened to 18th century aesthetic theory, whichimplied the surrender of the architecture to the criteria of an aesthetics purity. Aesthetic purity,however, tends to contradict with the everydayness, embodied in the architecture, In this context,aesthetic criteria is not proper to architecture.On the contrary, evervdav architecture is supposed to be so banal that it has nothing to do withexperimental or avant-garde architecture. Accurding to Karstcn Harries. however,genuine architecture,like all building, should make us comfortable, while like all art, it should make us uncomfortable.