Architecture
Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
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... He subsequently studied architecture in 1825 at the University of Munich under Friedrich von Gärtner ... he travelled to Italy and Greece in order to study the architecture and designs of antiquity ... bei den Alten (Preliminary Remarks on Polychrome Architecture and Sculpture in Antiquity), in which he took a strong position in favor of polychromy - supported by his investigation of pigments on the ...
... Cubism formed an important link between early-twentieth-century art and architecture is widely accepted ... and socio-political relationships between avant-garde practices in painting, sculpture and architecture had early ramifications in France, Germany, the Netherlands and ... Though there are many points of intersection between Cubism and architecture, only a few direct links between them can be drawn ...
... The principal advantage of the pure Harvard architecture—simultaneous access to more than one memory system—has been reduced by modified Harvard ... Relatively pure Harvard architecture machines are used mostly in applications where tradeoffs, such as the cost and power savings from omitting caches, outweigh the programming penalties ... with no cache, and take advantage of the Harvard architecture to speed processing by concurrent instruction and data access ...
... Information architecture (IA) is the art and science of organizing and labelling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability ... focused on bringing together principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape ...
1803 – May 15, 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841 ... Semper wrote extensively about the origins of architecture, especially in his book The Four Elements of Architecture from 1851, and he was one of the major figures in the controversy ...
More definitions of "architecture":
- (noun): The profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect.
- (noun): (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software.
Example: "The architecture of a computer's system software"
Synonyms: computer architecture
- (noun): The discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings.
Example: "Architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"
Famous quotes containing the word architecture:
“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And when his hours are numbered, and the world
Is all his own, retiring, as he were not,
Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art
To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone,
Built in an age, the mad wind’s night-work,
The frolic architecture of the snow.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)