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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



... Sphinx have the usual characteristics of the negro race. This opinion is confirmed by Blumenbach, the celebrated German naturalist, and by Volney, who carefully examined the architecture ...
— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child
... talk about how they came to do it, and how delightfully livable they found it. You could work it up with some architect, who would help you to 'keep off the grass' in the way of technical blunders. With all this tendency to the classic in public architecture, I don't see why the Pompeian villa shouldn't be the ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... the lotus is a fundamental form, and indeed it is said to he the main motive of the architecture of that civilization. The capitals of the column are modelled after one form or other of this plant. That of the Doric column is the seed vessel pressed flat. Earlier capitals are simple copies of the bell or seed ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... of a talkative, pretty girl, but a hero and a conqueror when with a suffering, anxious human being, beseeching his aid. His left-hand neighbour, the wife of a Frankfort banker, who chatted rapidly about the architecture of the dining-hall and the Wagner performances at Bayreuth, received monosyllabic, hesitating replies, while he talked eloquently to the lady on his right, the hostess, upon the influence of modern ...
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... went to Cincinnati and attended the harvest home festival in Green township, and read an address on the life and work of A. J. Downing, a noted horticulturalist and writer on rural architecture. I have always been interested in such subjects and was conversant with Downing's writings and works, especially with his improvement of the public parks in and about Washington. He was employed by the President of the United States in 1851, to lay out and superintend the improvement of ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman


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