Architecture
See also: Building.
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: an architectural product or work
- 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"
- 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; "the architecture of a computer's system software" [syn: computer architecture, architecture]