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Architecture   /ˈɑrkətˌɛktʃər/   Listen
Architecture

noun
1.
An architectural product or work.
2.
The discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings.
3.
The profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect.
4.
(computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software.  Synonym: computer architecture.



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"Architecture" Quotes from Famous Books



... cathedral of mediaeval architecture, of enormous dimensions. It was crumbling with age, but still housed the holy. Time and the elements had left the traces of their rough usage ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons
... youth, "I might turn my hand to many things in a new country. You know I have studied surveying, and I can sketch a little, and know something of architecture. I suppose that Latin and Greek would not be of much use, but the little I have picked up of medicine and surgery among the medical students would be useful. Then I could take notes, and sketch the scenery, and bring back a mass of material that might interest the public, ...
— The Golden Dream - Adventures in the Far West • R.M. Ballantyne
... an old porter in livery if the Count were at home, I cast my eyes, seeing everything at once, over the courtyard where the cobblestones were hidden in the grass, the blackened walls where little gardens were flourishing above the decorations of the elegant architecture, and on the roof, as high as that of the Tuileries. The balustrade of the upper balconies was eaten away. Through a magnificent colonnade I could see a second court on one side, where were the offices; the door was rotting. An old coachman was there cleaning an old carriage. The indifferent ...
— Honorine • Honore de Balzac
... rather the fortress of Lochleven, already somewhat gloomy in its situation and architecture, borrowed fresh mournfulness still from the hour at which it appeared to the queen's gaze. It was, so far as she could judge amid the mists rising from the lake, one of those massive structures of the twelfth century which seem, so fast shut up are they, the stone armour ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - MARY STUART--1587 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
... infinitesimal calculus of Leibnitz will show you that the architecture of the Louvre is less learned than that of a snail: the eternal geometer has unrolled his transcendent spirals on the shell of the mollusc that you, like the vulgar profane, know only seasoned with ...
— Fabre, Poet of Science • Dr. G.V. (C.V.) Legros


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