Definition of Architecture

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Architecture

The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.

Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.

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Architecture Quotations

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David Thoreau

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Voltaire

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Steve Martin

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture Translations

architecture in French is architecture
architecture in German is Architektur {n}
architecture in Italian is architettura
architecture in Spanish is arquitectura
architecture in Swedish is arkitektur

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