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architecture definition

archi·tec·ture (är′kə tek′c̸hər)

noun

  1. the science, art, or profession of designing and constructing buildings, bridges, etc.
  2. a building, or buildings collectively
  3. a style of construction Gothic architecture
  4. design and construction the architecture of a beehive
  5. any framework, system, etc.
  6. the design and interaction of components of a computer or computer system

Etymology: Fr < L architectura: see architect

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architecture Synonyms

architecture

n.

construction, planning, design, building, structure, architectonics, ecclesiology, house-building, shipbuilding, bridge-building, environmental engineering.

Styles of architecture include --- Classic: Ionian, Doric, Corinthian, Alexandrian, Greek, Egyptian, Etruscan, Roman; Romanesque: Norman, Rhenish; Gothic: Transitional, Lancet, Decorated, Flamboyant, Perpendicular; Renaissance: Italian, Jacobean. Elizabethan, ChÂteaux, English Classic, German Late; Pseudo-Classic: Rococo, Baroque, Georgian, Wren, Louis XIV; Recent: Pseudo-Gothic, Empire, Victorian, Colonial, Cape Cod, Georgian, Federal, Factory, Modernistic, Functional, Bauhaus, setback, skyscraper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, futuristic; misc.: Mayan, Malayan, Hindu, Chinese, Japanese, Byzantine, Saracenic, Moresque.


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architecture Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • admire: We had plenty of time to admire the architecture.

Preposition: for

  • hypermedia: The paper is a revised version of the workshop paper entitled " Toward a reference architecture for open hypermedia " .

Adjective modifier

  • Georgian: Bath & Northeast Somerset Attractions Bath offers the finest Georgian architecture in the country.

Modifies a noun

  • critic: There seem to be opposing views here, or is it just architecture critics setting up various standpoints and counterpoints?

Noun used with modifier

  • vernacular: Between 1989 and 1992, I traveled to China to document the extraordinary beauty and refinement of Chinese vernacular architecture.
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architecture quotes

The phenomenon of architecture is a development of the phenomenon of man.

-Allsop, (Harold) Bruce

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

Ghastly Good Taste, or a depressing story of the rise and fall of English architecture.

-Betjeman, SirJohn

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