Buildings are places where people live, work and worship, and it could be said that certain forms are imposed on them from the very outset by the needs they are required to fulfill. While it is possible to compose a piece of music or to paint without intending that the work in question be listened to or looked at and thus appreciated, it is certainly not possible to design a building without explicitly intending that it can be seen. Buildings are important features of the built and natural landscape and cannot be reproduced willfully without very serious effects. The impact of many buildings depends almost entirely upon their locations. Other forms of art do not have to rely on a specific site location for their impact.
Architecture is public.
It takes up space, either by crushing out of existence what has gone before or attempting to blend with what is existing. It is in this sense the most political of all art forms in that it imposes a vision of man and his purposes on those who experience it, independent of choice. There isn't time or space here to go into every specific example of the many gratuitous personal, ageist insults for which Eddie Silva owes Gyo Obata a heartfelt apology. Silva will go some way to restoring his shattered personal and professional credibility if he publicly does the right thing. You and your fellow RFT scribes are oblivious to a huge chunk of the local music scene.