Last night I pulled together 20 examples of architecture in art for today’s post. As I scrolled through Pinterest pinning hundreds of images that appeal, I realized that one of the categories that make my heart flutter most is architecture. (You can look at my Architecture I and Architecture II Pinterest boards and see if you feel similarly.)
Artwork sucks me in, street style compels me to lose weight and dress with more verve, and food photos makes me wish I had more time and energy to really cook, but the architectural images draw me in more profoundly. Sure, it’s the design aspects in part—the corrugated metal, black stained siding, expanses of glass, pointy rooftops, and placement in the surrounding landscape transport me to another place, another time, another life I could have. Or maybe, just a house I might someday build.
So just for that reason, the realization that looking at sublime examples of contemporary dwellings elicits a response deeper than browsing well-designed living rooms and adorable, furry animals, here are occurrences of architecture in art, including photographs, paintings, illustration, sculpture, and collage.
![architecture-in-art-bowl](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-bowl.jpg?resize=500%2C334&ssl=1)
Classic Bowling Architecture • Vorona Photography
Prints starting at $16 at Society6
![architecture-in-art-luciana-levinton](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-luciana-levinton.jpg?resize=500%2C310&ssl=1)
Banco • Luciana Levinton
Prints starting at $124 • Original $10,000 • Saatchi Art
![architecture-in-art-cecile-van-hanja](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-cecile-van-hanja.jpg?resize=500%2C396&ssl=1)
Universal Space • Cécile Van Hanja
Prints starting at $60 at Saatchi Art
![architecture-in-art-rosalind-davis](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-rosalind-davis.jpg?resize=500%2C404&ssl=1)
Farewell • Rosalind Davis
$170 at Rise Art
![architecture-in-art-sannngat](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-sannngat.jpg?resize=500%2C334&ssl=1)
Architecture • Sannngat
Prints starting at $17.67 at Society6
![architecture-in-art-surfers-house](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-surfers-house.jpg?resize=500%2C376&ssl=1)
Yellow Surfer’s House • Ieva Baklane
Prints starting at $104 • Original $1,278 • Saatchi Art
![architecture-in-art-rickt-allman](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-rickt-allman.jpg?resize=500%2C330&ssl=1)
False Memory • Ricky Allman
Starting at $60 at 20×200
![architecture-in-art-look-down](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-look-down.jpg?resize=500%2C364&ssl=1)
Look Down • Gail Schechter
Starting at $20 at Minted
![architecture-in-art-dreamed-bungalow](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-dreamed-bungalow.jpg?resize=500%2C496&ssl=1)
Dreamed Bungalow • Carola Schapals
$8,000 at Saatchi Art
![architecture-in-art-trevi-fountain](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-trevi-fountain.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Icons *2 (Trevi Fountain, Rome) • Nicolas Vionnet
$985 at Saatchi Art
![architecture-in-art-woodshed](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-woodshed.jpg?resize=500%2C503&ssl=1)
Woodshed • Andrew McClintock
Starting at $22 at Minted
![architecture-in-art-igor-vitomirov](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-igor-vitomirov.jpg?resize=500%2C498&ssl=1)
At the Sea II • Igor Vitomirov
Prints starting at $67 • Original $1,200 • Saatchi Art
![architecture-in-art-chrysler-building](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-chrysler-building.jpg?resize=500%2C595&ssl=1)
Painting Edifico Chrysler y Empire State • Claudia Hernández
Saatchi Art
![architecture-in-art-lemonee-on-the-hills](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-lemonee-on-the-hills.jpg?resize=500%2C750&ssl=1)
Modern Architecture • Lemonee on the Hills
Prints starting at $17 at Society6
![architecture-in-art-peter-matyasi](https://i0.wp.com/stylecarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/architecture-in-art-peter-matyasi.jpg?resize=500%2C664&ssl=1)
Untitled00373 • Peter Matyasi
Prints starting at $125 / Original $1500 • Saatchi Art