Is Architecture an Art? Is IT Architecture an Art.

It is a debate, in fundamentalist IT architecture circles. Really.

Engineering is the application of mathematics, empirical evidence and scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, innovate, design, build, maintain, research, and improve structures, machines, tools, systems, components, materials, processes and organizations.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering#Business_Engineering_and_Engineering_Management

Art. The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power:

The art of the Renaissance

Great art is concerned with moral imperfections

She studied art in Paris

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/art

So, Architecture may be Art (most of the time).
IT Architecture is Engineering. There is no beauty or emotion involved.
(And also architecting buildings is largely engineering)

It the 19th centure the notion of Art emerged as an independent entity. Before that everything we call art today was plain craftsmanship. Business.

In the last century art movements have tried to redefine art as craft. I believe that was Bauhaus. Then art becomes engineering, again.

Everything is art.
Art is nothing, or everything.
Engineering, (IT) architecture is a method.
Art is an end state.