Found Object Art

Question: 

If you find a building, is it ART?    

Lou Revo Center for Brain Health by Frank Gehry

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/17/lou-ruvo-center-for-brain-health-by-frank-gehry/

In thinking about some of the information in the book Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn,  

I wondered what could be done about some of the slum areas around the world described in the book, and also pictured here in a video clip from the Half the Sky Film with a segment with Nicholas Kristof and actress Olivia Wilde:

Watch Olivia Wilde on Empowering Women Economically in Kenya on PBS. See more from Independent Lens.

Here's an image from a simple Google search of Africa Slums:

http://gowans.wordpress.com/capitalism-with-all-its-glitz-and-socialism-with-none-at-all/slums-squalor/

Check out this link as well:  Africa slums.

Found Object Art:  Art that is made from found objects

Subgenre of Found Object Art:  Trash Art or Junk Art 

Here's a couple of examples of fine art created from found objects:

http://10marifet.org/yazi/dev-kelebekler/

"Atık materyallerden yapılmış dev kelebekler harika görünüyorlar.."
Giant butterflies made ​​from waste materials look great ..

Picasso's "Bull Head," made from bicycle seat and handle bars:

http://tubulocity.com/?p=5590

Is this ART?

Manna Project International Guatemala
http://guatemala.mannaproject.org/2010_11_01_archive.html

"UPYCLING is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.  "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling

Building from waste materials.. This building above is used as a school.

Some possibilities:

BBC Future: Turning Waste into Building Blocks of the Future City

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130524-creating-our-cities-from-waste

There are groups which "Upcycle" in developing areas by building schools and other structures out of trash. They create things which people need while utilizing materials from the terrain - and cleaning up the area. It is labor intensive, but practical and very low-cost. It kills two birds with one stone.