architecture

IPA: ˈɑrkʌtɛktʃɝ

The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
Any particular style of building design.
Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
A unifying structure.
(computing) A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
(computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
The structure and design of a system or product.

Examples of "architecture" in Sentences

And in this church the architecture is the liturgy.
It is an exemplar of the Neoclassical architecture style.
It typified the Klungkung style of architecture and painting.
The architecture of the door is contrary to eclectic Turkish style.
I can no longer use the word architecture in the traditional sense.
Much of the architecture of the city is in the Soviet realist style.
The architecture of the bungalows is in the California Bungalow Style.
None of the architecture is historic; most of it is made of concrete block.
The immediate future in architecture is likely to please the Matthew Yglesiases of the world.
My mother received a degree in architecture from the University of Minnesota in 1922, and an MFA from
They do not build the houses very close together, and whether of rich or poor, the architecture is the same.
One unwelcome trend in architecture is the inclusion of dual use cocktail spaces as a central function of museum spaces.
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.