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Definition of Architecture

Architecture

  1. 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.
  2. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.

Architecture Quotations

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

I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
Bob Dylan
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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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