ar·chi·tec·ture
noun/ˈɑːkɪtektʃə(r)/
/ˈɑːrkɪtektʃər/
- [uncountable] the art and study of designing buildings
建筑学 - to study architecture
学习建筑学 - She's a professor of architecture at the University of Oregon.
她是俄勒冈大学建筑学教授。 - an architecture student/critic
建筑系学生/评论家
- to study architecture
enlarge image[uncountable] the design or style of a building or buildings建筑设计；建筑风格 - the architecture of the eighteenth century
十八世纪的建筑风格 - modern architecture
现代建筑设计 - There are examples of most styles of architecture in the town.
镇上有大多数建筑风格的例子。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- classical
- contemporary
- medieval
- …
- a school of architecture
- a style of architecture
- the architecture of the eighteenth century
- [countable, uncountable] (computing) the design and structure of a computer system
体系结构；（总体、层次）结构，架构 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- client-server
- hardware
- information
- …
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin architectura, from architectus from Greek arkhitektōn, from arkhi- ‘chief’ + tektōn ‘builder’.