Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

is the art and science of designing and constructing buildings and other structure for human use and shelter. Architecture may also refer to:

Design of built environments

Landscape architecture Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for constructio ...

, the design of man-made land constructs *

Naval architecture Naval architecture, or naval engineering, is an engineering discipline incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the engineering design process, shipbuilding, maintenance, and op ...

, the science of design of water-borne vessels * Vehicle architecture, an automobile platform common to different vehicles * Architectural Technology, the application of technology to the design of buildings

Design of process systems

Process architecture Process architecture is the structural design of general process systems. It applies to fields such as computers (software, hardware, networks, etc.), business processes (enterprise architecture, policy and procedures, logistics, project management ...

, the design of general process systems (computers, business processes, etc.) **

Enterprise architecture Enterprise architecture (EA) is a business function concerned with the structures and behaviours of a business, especially business roles and processes that create and use business data. The international definition according to the Federation of ...

, an architecture, or framework, for aligning an organization's systems *** Enterprise information security architecture, or EISA, the portion of enterprise architecture focused on information security **

Information architecture Information architecture (IA) is the structural design of shared information environments; the art and science of organizing and labelling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability; and an emerging ...

, the systems architecture for structuring the information flows in a knowledge-based system ** Robotic architectures, the architecture of the hardware and software in robots **

Systems architecture A system architecture is the conceptual model that defines the structure, behavior, and view model, views of a system. An architecture description is a formal description and representation of a system, organized in a way that supports reasoning ...

, the representation of an engineered system ** Technical architecture, the technical definition of an engineered system

Computing

* Computer architecture, the systems architecture of a computer **

Hardware architecture In engineering, hardware architecture refers to the identification of a system's physical components and their interrelationships. This description, often called a hardware design model, allows hardware designers to understand how their compon ...

, the architecture design of an integrated device ***

Microarchitecture In electronics, computer science and computer engineering, microarchitecture, also called computer organization and sometimes abbreviated as μarch or uarch, is the way a given instruction set architecture (ISA) is implemented in a particular ...

, processor implementation **

Software architecture Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each structure comprises software elements, relations among them, and properties of both elements a ...

, the systems architecture of a software system

Publications

* '' Architecture: the AIA journal'', published by the American Institute of Architects, 1983–2006 * ''Architecture'' (magazine, 1900–1936)

Art

* ''Architecture'' (Klee), a 1923 painting by Paul Klee

Biology

* Histopathologic architecture, the overall pattern formed by groups of cells *

Cytoarchitecture Cytoarchitecture (from Greek κύτος 'cell' and ἀρχιτεκτονική 'architecture'), also known as cytoarchitectonics, is the study of the cellular composition of the central nervous system's tissues under the microscope. Cytoarchit ...

, the arrangement and interaction of cellular structures in the central nervous system * Nuclear architecture, the arrangement and organization of chromatin inside the nucleus

Record labels

* Architecture Label, an Australian record label

Other uses

Architecture sometimes refers to: * "Architecture", a song by Maisie Peters from ''Dressed Too Nice For a Jacket'', 2018 *

Architectural history The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The beginnings of all these traditions is thought to be humans satisfying the very basic need of shelt ...

, studies the evolution and history of architecture * Architectural analytics *

Product design Product design is the process of creating new Product (business), products for businesses to sell to their customers. It involves the generation and development of ideas through a systematic process that leads to the creation of innovative products ...

, or product architecture, the systems design of a product or product family *

Architectural Association School of Architecture The Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, commonly referred to as the AA, is the oldest private school of architecture in the UK. The AA hosts exhibitions, lectures, academic conference, symposia and publications. Histo ...

, a private school of architecture