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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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

profession    building    edifice   

indo-aryan architecture    peruvian architecture    monolithic architecture    neo-classic architecture    cottage architecture   

workmanship    structure    building    construction    ecclesiology   

Design   

design    technology    literature    sculpture    building