Word Finder - architecture

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The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.

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Architecture is the visual public expression of a culture’s achievements, values, and outlook. ― Max Roscoe, "How Your City Is Killing You With Ugliness"

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The profession of an architect.

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Any particular style of building design.

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

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A unifying structure.

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A specific model of a microchip or CPU.

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The Intel architectures have more software written for them.

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The structure and design of a system or product.

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The architecture of the company's billing system is designed to support its business goals.

The architecture was fantastic, but not near as exciting as the ride on a ferry.

Nothing could be more beautiful than the architecture of this ice-palace.

Unlike Chinese art it has a genius for architecture and sculpture rather than painting.

Both countries are rich in works of architecture raised during the time of Norman rule.

Unlike any other buildings in Abyssinia, the castles and palaces of Gondar resemble, with some modifications, the medieval fortresses of Europe, the style of architecture being the result of the presence in the country of numbers of Portuguese.

The architecture of the city is not without merit.

In Normandy itself, after the separation from England, architecture becomes French, but it is French of a remarkably good type.

Their architecture in wood, however, was excellent; and the teak forests of their country afforded the finest timber for building and for carving.

What does architecture amount to in the experience of the mass of men?

Arles still possesses many monuments of Roman architecture and art, the most remarkable being the ruins of an amphitheatre (the Arenes), capable of containing 25,000 spectators, which, in the 11th and 12th centuries, was flanked with massive towers, of which three are still standing.

A sentimental reformer in architecture, he began at the cornice, not at the foundation.

Within the town the streets are often dark and narrow, and, apart from the cathedral and the hotel de ville, the architecture is of little interest.

Derbyshire is rich in ecclesiastical architecture as a whole.

Dentil mouldings, of which examples may still be seen in the remains of the palace of Blachernae at Constantinople, are characteristic of Venetian ornamentation at this period, and remain a permanent feature in Venetian architecture down to the 11th century.

History is exemplified in this restaurant's architecture with its brick interior, wooden beams and leather furniture.

The Renaissance had little or no influence on Sardinian architecture and culture.

But the most characteristic features of architecture in the country are shown in the forts and palaces of the chiefs and in their cenotaphs.

After taking orders he went (1770) to Rome, where he obtained the degree of doctor of theology and common law, and devoted himself enthusiastically to the study of the fine arts, especially of architecture and painting.

In truth, owing to its isolated position on the very verge of Italy, and to its close connexion with the East, Venetian architecture was an independent development.

The question as to whether copper really was first used in Egypt is not yet resolved, and many arguments can be brought against the theory of Egyptian origin and in favour of one in Syria or further north.26 Egypt has also recently been credited with being the inceptor of the whole " megalithic (or heliolithic, as the fashionable word now is) culture " of mankind, from Britain to China and (literally) Peru or at any rate Mexico via the Pacific Isles.27 The theory is that the achievements of the Egyptians in great stone architecture at the time of the pyramid-builders so impressed their contemporaries that they were imitated in the surrounding lands, by the Libyans and Syrians, that the fame of them was carried by the Phoenicians further afield, and that early Arab and Indian traders passed on the megalithic idea to Farther India, and thence to Polynesia and so on so that both the teocalli of Teotihuacan and Stonehenge are ultimately derived through cromlechs and dolmens innumerable from the stone pyramid of Saqqara, built by Imhotep, the architect of King Zoser, about 3100 B.C. (afterwards deified as the patron of science and architecture).

The arrival of these texts—as well as Byzantium's own architecture, science, and art—triggered a sensory and intellectual explosion, which became the cultural movement we now call the Renaissance.

All we can reasonably believe is that he gave encouragement to poetry as he had done to architecture and the drama; Onomacritus, the chief of the Orphic succession, and collector of the oracles of Musaeus, was a member of his household.

Puri district is rich in historical remains, from the primitive rock-hewn caves of Buddhism - the earliest relics of Indian architecture - to the medieval sun temple at Kanarak and the shrine of Jagannath.

The French historian of art, Seroux d'Agincourt, 1825, by his copious illustrations, greatly facilitated the study of the architecture of the catacombs and the works of art contained in them.

The other mosques do not merit any particular attention, and in general it may be said that Bagdad architecture is neither distinctive nor imposing.

In glaring contrast to the bold and simple forms of the architecture, which belongs to the Doric style, were the bronze and marbles and pictures of the high altar, the masterpiece of the Milanese Giacomo Trezzo, almost ruined by the French in 1808.

In addition to remains of architecture and sculpture, some of them of high merit, there have been found many inscriptions, throwing light on the cures attributed to the god.

The period of his reign was the golden age of Indian architecture.

There are accordingly parts of Siberia, especially among the Raskolniks or Nonconformists, where the north Russian, the Great Russian and the Ukrainian (or southern) types have maintained themselves in their full purity, and only some differences in domestic architecture, in the disposition of their villages and in the language and character of the population remind the traveller that he is in Siberia.

He taught at the lycee Charlemagne in 1853, and in the school of architecture 1865-1871, but his energies were mainly devoted to various scientific missions entrusted to him.

It has, in general, been greatly shortened, and the ordinary sermon of to-day is no longer an elaborate piece of carefully balanced and ornamental literary architecture, but a very simple and brief homily, not occupying the listener for more than some ten minutes in the course of an elaborate service.

The chapel of St Julian, where French Anglican services are held, is of transitional Norman architecture, greatly altered by restoration.

First comes architecture - in the main, symbolic art; then sculpture, the classical art par excellence; they are found, however, in all three forms. Painting and music are the specially romantic arts.

It is one of the oldest as well as one of the most complete examples of Jain architecture known.

Traditional Japanese landscape and architecture are recreated in rich detail.

Various multi-dimensional interpretations could be associated with unbuilt architecture as a basis from where a digital reconstruction can be developed.

Situated in Norway 's mild southern regions, the Western Fjords present a stunning mix of towering peaks, verdant meadows and traditional architecture.

Picture quality is remarkably good - villous architecture is clearly visible.

It was founded in 1958 to fight the then widespread ignorance of nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture.

The sublime architecture of the cathedral wasstunning to gaze upon.

As a member of a fourth generation real estate family from Texas, Robin has been influenced by architecture.

However, while pop-up cards are typically designed by attaching cut and folded pieces of paper to a card, origamic architecture is created by cutting and folding the card itself.

While many designers enjoy recreating famous buildings and monuments in paper form, the use of the word "architecture" can be misleading.

Origamic architecture can depict everything from flowers to Santa Claus.

San Francisco Architecture with the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, the Ferry Building, a cable car, the Conservatory of Flowers, and California wine country.

While AG Industries, Inc. focuses primarily on Whitewings gliders, the company also sells some origamic architecture.

Pop-Up Origamic Architecture by Masahiro Chatani is an out-of-print resource that you may be able to find at a library or used bookstore.

The site of origami architecture artist Ingrid Siliakus includes examples of creations, lists of resources, and links to galleries selling her work.

The International Pop-up Gallery features a combination of traditional pop-up constructions and origamic architecture from around the world.

Jagoda's Origamic Architecture includes a gallery of cards created by the site owner.