from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The art and science of designing and erecting buildings.
- n. Buildings and other large structures: the low, brick-and-adobe architecture of the Southwest.
- n. A style and method of design and construction: Byzantine architecture.
- n. Orderly arrangement of parts; structure: the architecture of the federal bureaucracy; the architecture of a novel.
- n. Computer Science The overall design or structure of a computer system, including the hardware and the software required to run it, especially the internal structure of the microprocessor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The art and science of designing buildings and other structures.
- n. The profession of an architect.
- n. Any particular style of building design.
- n. A unifying structure.
- n. A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
- n. The structure and design of a system or product.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.
- n. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The art of building, specifically of fine or beautiful building.
- n. The buildings or other objects produced by architecture as defined above.
- n. The character or style of building: as, the architecture of Paris.
- n. Construction and formative design of any kind.
- To construct; build.
- n. The design of the strictly architectural buildings in such pleasure-grounds (pavilions, casinos, terrace walls, parapets, perrons, and pedestals for statues).
- n. that of the time of Herod Agrippa (37–44 a. d.), under whom the system of design was Roman, with, only such modification as was common in the cities of Syria.
- n. Architecture in which the work is cast in a solid mass (as in pisé, or rammed clay), in recent times by means of artificial stone.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software
- n. the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings
- n. the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
- n. an architectural product or work
He studied architecture at the University of British Columbia as an undergraduate and earned a master's in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley -- where he was given a teaching job in ethnic studies after students, angry about Vietnam, protested for a less Eurocentric curriculum.
The immediate future in architecture is likely to please the Matthew Yglesiases of the world.
One unwelcome trend in architecture is the inclusion of dual use cocktail spaces as a central function of museum spaces.
I can no longer use the word architecture in the traditional sense.
My mother received a degree in architecture from the University of Minnesota in 1922, and an MFA from
And in this church the architecture is the liturgy.
None of the architecture is historic; most of it is made of concrete block.
They do not build the houses very close together, and whether of rich or poor, the architecture is the same.
"A trifle naked if you like," said my irrepressible companion, "but that's what I call architecture, just as I don't call bronze or marble clothes (save under urgent stress of portraiture) statuary."
This kind of architecture is not doing enough to soften the harshness of the box.