Definition of Architecture
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
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
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel
I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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