Architecture

Ar´chi`tec`ture

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.

Many other architectures besides Gothic.

- Ruskin.

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

The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees.

- Tyndall.

The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture.

- Burnet.

Military architecture
the art of fortifications.

Naval architecture
the art of building ships.

Noun	1.	architecture - an architectural product or work
	2.	architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"
	3.	architecture - the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
	4.	architecture - (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software; "the architecture of a computer's system software" Synonyms: computer architecture

(architecture)

architecture - Design, the way components fit together. The term is used particularly of processors, both individual and in general. "The ARM has a really clean architecture". It may also be used of any complex system, e.g. "software architecture", "network architecture".

To see a building in your dream, represents the self and the body. How high you are in the building indicates a rising level of understanding or awareness. If you are in the lower levels of the building, then it refers to more primal attitudes and/or sexuality. To see a building in ruins or damaged, indicates that your approach toward a situation or relationship is all wrong. You need to change. Your own self-image may have suffered and taken some blow. To dream that you or someone fall off a building, suggests that you are descending into the realm of unconscious. You are learning about and acknowledging aspects of your unconscious. Alternatively, it symbolizes your fear of not being able to complete or succeeding in a task. See also falling in our Common Dream Themes section.Bauhaus, Byzantine, Egyptian, English, French, German, Gothic, Greco-Roman, Greek, Greek Revival, Italian, Persian, Renaissance, Roman, Romanesque, Spanish, academic, action, anagnorisis, anatomy, angle, architectonics, argument, arrangement, assembly, atmosphere, background, baroque, build, casting, catastrophe, characterization, civil architecture, color, complication, composition, conformation, constitution, construct, construction, continuity, contrivance, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, denouement, design, development, device, devising, early renaissance, edifice, elaboration, episode, erection, establishment, extraction, fable, fabric, fabrication, falling action, fashion, fashioning, forging, form, format, formation, forming, formulation, frame, framing, frozen music, functionalism, getup, gimmick, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, house, incident, international, landscape architecture, landscape gardening, line, local color, machining, make, makeup, making, manufacture, manufacturing, medieval, milling, mining, modern, mold, molding, mood, motif, movement, mythos, organic structure, organism, organization, packaged house, pattern, patterning, peripeteia, physique, pile, plan, plot, prefab, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, production, pyramid, raising, recognition, refining, rising action, scheme, secondary plot, setup, shape, shaping, skyscraper, slant, smelting, story, structuring, subject, subplot, superstructure, switch, tectonics, texture, thematic development, theme, tissue, tone, topic, tower, twist, warp and woof, weave, web, workmanship

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