architecture

n. science of designing and building structures; layout, formation, arrangement; building style or method; design of a computer and its components (Computers)

Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. A wider definition often includes the design of the total built environment: from the macrolevel of town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture to the microlevel of construction details and, sometimes, furniture. The term "Architecture" is also used for the profession of providing architectural services.
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Noun
1. an architectural product or work
(hypernym) building, edifice
2. the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"
(hypernym) discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge
(hyponym) landscape architecture
(part-meronym) architectonics, tectonics
(class) astylar
3. the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
(hypernym) profession
(class) cantilever
4. (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software; "the architecture of a computer's system software"
(synonym) computer architecture
(hypernym) structure
(hyponym) complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer, CISC
(classification) computer science, computing

n. architecture