architecture

See also:architecturé

English

Etymology

Borrowed fromFrencharchitecture,fromLatinarchitectūra.Originally fromarchitect,fromAncient Greekἀρχιτέκτων(arkhitéktōn,“architect”,literally“chief builder, principal craftsman”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈɑː.kɪ.ˌtɛk.tʃə/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈɑɹkɪtɛkt͡ʃɚ/

• Audio(US):

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• Hyphenation:ar‧chi‧tec‧ture

Noun

architecture(countableanduncountable,pluralarchitectures)

2. The art and science of designing and managing the construction ofbuildingsand otherstructures,particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.

   Thearchitecturethroughout NYC is amazing.

   • April 21, 2017,Max Roscoe,How Your City Is Killing You With Ugliness[1]

     Architectureis the visual public expression of a culture’s achievements, values, and outlook.# The profession of anarchitect.

3. Any particular style of building design.
4. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
   • c.1587–1588,[Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great.[…]The First Part[…],2nd edition, part 1, London:[…][R. Robinson for]Richard Iones,[…],published1592,→OCLC;reprinted asTamburlaine the Great(A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act II, scene vii:

     Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend
     The wondrousArchitectureof the world:
     And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe,
     Still climing after knowledge infinite,[…]

   • 1871,John Tyndall,Fragments of Science for Unscientific People:

     thearchitectureof grasses, plants, and trees

   • 1684-1690,Thomas Burnet,Sacred Theory of the Earth

     the formation of the first Earth, after such a wonderful manner, being a piece of DivineArchitecture

5. A unifying structure.
6. (computing)AfamilyofCPUssharing a commoninstruction setand having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
7. (computing)A specific model of amicrochiporCPU.

   The Intelarchitectureshave more software written for them.

8. The structure and design of asystemorproduct.
   • 2004,Prof P.C.P. Bhatt,(nptel.iitm.ac.in)Module 14: Unix Kernel Architecture

     The kernel runs the show, i.e. it manages all the operations in a Unix flavored environment. The kernelarchitecturemust support the primary Unix requirements. These requirements fall in two categories namely, functions for process management and functions for file management (files include device files). Process management entails allocation of resources including CPU, memory, and offers services that processes may need. The file management in itself involves handling all the files required by processes, communication with device drives and regulating transmission of data to and from peripherals.

   Thearchitectureof the company's billing system is designed to support its business goals.

Hyponyms

• computer architecture
• Cyclopean architecture
• enterprise architecture
• enterprise architecture model
• event-driven architecture
• formula architecture
• Harvard architecture
• kinetic architecture
• load-store architecture
• message-driven architecture
• micro-architecture
• microarchitecture
• model-driven architecture
• modified Harvard architecture
• origamic architecture
• pandemonium architecture
• quality-driven archictecture
• search-oriented architecture
• service-oriented architecture
• software architecture
• system architecture
• systems architecture
• vernacular architecture
• von Neumann architecture

Derived terms

• advertecture
• advertecture
• angioarchitecture
• angioarchitecture
• aquatecture
• aquatecture
• architect
• architectonic
• architectural
• architectured
• architectured
• architecturesque
• architecturesque
• architextuality
• architextuality
• architourism
• architourism
• architourist
• architourist
• arcology
• arcology
• astroarchitecture
• astroarchitecture
• barkitecture
• barkitecture
• bioarchitecture
• bioarchitecture
• biotecture
• biotecture
• blobitecture
• blobitecture
• chemoarchitecture
• chemoarchitecture
• cytoarchitecture
• cytoarchitecture
• dearchitecturization
• duplitecture
• duplitecture
• ecoarchitecture
• ecoarchitecture
• ecotecture
• ecotecture
• hepatoarchitecture
• hepatoarchitecture
• histoarchitecture
• histoarchitecture
• hostile architecture
• immunoarchitecture
• immunoarchitecture
• macroarchitecture
• macroarchitecture
• marchitecture
• marchitecture
• marketecture
• marketecture
• multiarchitecture
• multiarchitecture
• mycotecture
• mycotecture
• myeloarchitecture
• myeloarchitecture
• myoarchitecture
• myoarchitecture
• nanoarchitecture
• nanoarchitecture
• neuroarchitecture
• neuroarchitecture
• nonarchitecture
• nonarchitecture
• oyster-tecture
• oyster-tecture
• parkitecture
• parkitecture
• rearchitecture
• rearchitecture
• starchitecture
• starchitecture
• subarchitecture
• subarchitecture
• synaptoarchitecture
• synaptoarchitecture
• xenoarchitecture
• xenoarchitecture

Translations

art and science of designing buildings and other structures

• Afrikaans:argitektuur
• Albanian:arkitekturë(sq)f
• Amharic:ሥነ ሕንፃ(śənä ḥənṣ́a)
• Arabic:هَنْدَسَة مِعْمَارِيَّةf(handasa miʕmāriyya),عِمَارَة(ar)f(ʕimāra)
• Armenian:ճարտարապետություն(hy)(čartarapetutʻyun)
• Aromanian:arhitecturâf
• Assamese:স্থাপত্যকলা(sthapoittokola)
• Asturian:arquiteutura(ast)f,arquitectura(ast)f
• Azerbaijani:memarlıq
• Basque:arkitektura
• Belarusian:архітэкту́раf(arxitektúra)
• Bulgarian:архитекту́ра(bg)f(arhitektúra)
• Burmese:ဗိသုကာပညာ(bi.su.kapa.nya)
• Catalan:arquitectura(ca)f
• Chechen:архитектура(arxitektura)
• Cherokee:ᎠᏓᏁᎳᏅᎯ(adanelanvhi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Kiến trúc／Kiến trúc(gin³zuk¹),Kiến trúc học／Kiến trúc học(gin³zuk¹hok⁶)(science)

  Hokkien:Kiến trúc／Kiến trúc(zh-min-nan)(kiàn-tio̍k)

  Mandarin:Kiến trúc／Kiến trúc(zh)(jiànzhù),Kiến trúc học／Kiến trúc học(zh)(jiànzhùxué)(science)

• Crimean Tatar:mimarcılıq
• Czech:architektura(cs)f
• Danish:arkitektur(da)c
• Dutch:architectuur(nl)f,bouwstijl(nl)m
• Esperanto:arkitekturo,arĥitekturo
• Estonian:arhitektuur,ehituskunst
• Faroese:byggilistf
• Finnish:arkkitehtuuri(fi),rakennustaide(fi)
• French:architecture(fr)f
• Galician:arquitectura(gl)f
• Georgian:არქიტექტურა(arkiṭekṭura)
• German:Architektur(de)f,Baustil(de)m
• Greek:αρχιτεκτονική(el)f(architektonikí)
• Greenlandic:ilusilersugaaneq
• Guaraní:jogapokuaa
• Gujarati:વાસ્તુકલા?(vāstukalā)
• Haitian Creole:achitekti
• Hausa:handasa(ha)
• Hebrew:אַדְרִיכָלוּת(he)f(adrikhalút),אַרְכִיטֶקְטוּרָה(he)f(arxitekˈtura)
• Hindi:वास्तुकला(hi)f(vāstukalā)
• Hungarian:építészet(hu)
• Icelandic:byggingarlist(is),húsagerðarlistf
• Ido:arkitekturo(io)
• Indonesian:arsitektur(id),ilmu bangunan(id),seni bina(id)(Malay)
• Interlingua:architectura
• Inuktitut:ᐃᒡᓗᕐᔪᐊᑦ ᐋᖅᑭᒃᓯᒪᓂᖏᑦ(icloryoat aaqkiksimaningit)
• Irish:ailtireachtf
• Italian:architettura(it)f
• Japanese:Kiến trúc(ja)(けんちく, kenchiku),Kiến trúc học(ja)(けんちくがく, kenchikugaku)(science)
• Javanese:seni bangunan
• Kabyle:ⵜⴰⵙⴻⴳⴷⴰ(tasegda)
• Kalmyk:урн тосхлт(urn tosxlt)
• Kannada:ವಾಸ್ತುಶಿಲ್ಪಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ(vāstuśilpaśāstra),ಕಟ್ಟಡದರಿಮೆ(kn)(kaṭṭaḍadarime)
• Kashubian:architekturaf
• Kazakh:сәулет(säulet)
• Khmer:ស្ថាបត្យកម្ម(km)(sthaapattyaʼkam),និម្មាបនកម្ម(nɨmmiəpaʼnaʼkam)
• Korean:건축( kiến trúc )(ko)(geonchuk),건축학( kiến trúc học )(geonchukhak)(science)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish:nijyarvanî(ku),bînasazî(ku)

• Kyrgyz:архитектура(ky)(arhitektura)
• Lao:ສະຖາປັດຕະຍະກຳ(sa thā pat ta nya kam)
• Latin:architectūraf
• Latvian:arhitektūraf
• Lithuanian:architektūra(lt)f
• Macedonian:архитекту́раf(arhitektúra)
• Malagasy:maritrano(mg)
• Malay:seni bina(ms)
• Malayalam:വാസ്തുവിദ്യ(ml)(vāstuvidya)
• Manx:ard-obbrinysm,seyrnaghtf
• Maori:hoahoanga
• Marathi:वास्तुशास्त्र?(vāstuśāstra)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic:уран барилга(uran barilga),архитектур(mn)(arxitektur)

• Nahuatl:arquitectura,calmanayōtl,calmanaliztli(nah)
• Neapolitan:archetettura
• North Frisian:baukonst
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:arkitektur(no)m

• Occitan:arquitectura(oc)f,architecturaf
• Ottoman Turkish:معمارلق(mi'mârlık)
• Pashto:مهندسي(muhandasī),معماري(miʿmārī)
• Persian:معماری(fa)(me'mâri),مهرازی(fa)(mehrâzi),مهندسی(fa)(mohandasi)(Dari)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk:aarkitekchur
• Polish:architektura(pl)f
• Portuguese:arquitetura(pt)f
• Punjabi:ਵਾਸਤੂਕਲਾ?(vāstūkalā)
• Quechua:sumaq wasichay kamay,arkhitiktura
• Romanian:arhitectură(ro)f
• Russian:архитекту́ра(ru)f(arxitektúra),зо́дчество(ru)n(zódčestvo)(dated or poetic)
• Sanskrit:स्थापत्यकर्म(sthāpatyakarma)
• Saterland Frisian:Baukunst
• Scottish Gaelic:ailtearachdf
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:архитекту́раf

  Roman:arhitektúra(sh)f

• Silesian:baukůnšt
• Sinhalese:වාස්‍තු විද්‍යාව?(wāstu widyāwa)
• Slovak:architektúraf
• Slovene:arhitektura(sl)f
• Spanish:arquitectura(es)f
• Swahili:ujenziclass14,usanifu majengo
• Swedish:arkitektur(sv)c
• Tagalog:arkitektura,agbarugan
• Tajik:меъморӣ(tg)(meʾmori)
• Tamil:கட்டிடக்கலை(ta)(kaṭṭiṭakkalai)
• Tatar:мигмарлык(migmarlıq),архитектура(arxitektura)
• Telugu:వాస్తుశాస్త్రము(te)(vāstuśāstramu)
• Thai:สถาปัตยกรรม(th)(sà-tǎa-bpàt-dtà-yá-gam)
• Tibetan:ཁང་རྩིག་བཟོ་རིག(khang rtsig bzo rig)
• Turkish:mimarlık(tr)
• Turkmen:arhitektura(tk)
• Ukrainian:архітекту́ра(uk)f(arxitektúra)
• Uyghur:بىناكارلىق(binakarliq)
• Uzbek:meʼmorlik(uz),me’morchilik(uz),arxitektura(uz)
• Vietnamese:kiến trúc(vi)
• Volapük:bumav(vo)
• Voro:ehitüskunst
• Welsh:pensaernïaethf
• West Frisian:boukeunst(fy)c
• Yiddish:אַרכיטעקטורf(arkhitektur)
• Yoruba:aworan ilé̩ kíkó̩

style of building design

• Indonesian:arsitektur(id)

construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship—seeconstruction,‎structure,‎workmanship

computing: a family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other

• Indonesian:arsitektur(id)

computing: a specific model of a microchip or CPU

• Indonesian:arsitektur(id)
• Polish:architektura(pl)f

See also

Appendix:Glossary of architecture

French

Etymology

FromLatinarchitectūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/aʁ.ʃi.tɛk.tyʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

architecturef(pluralarchitectures)

1. architecture

Related terms

• architecte
• architectural
• architecturer

Descendants

• →Dutch:architectuur
  • Afrikaans:argitektuur
  • →Indonesian:arsitektur

Further reading

• “architecture”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.