Talk:Architecture (disambiguation)

General Restructuring And Update of (disambiguation) Page

I am in process of broadening, restructuring, and generally making this page more "user friendly."

All comments are respectfully solicited! normxxx 01:44, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

a more general definition of Architecture

I feel that the word architecture is more broader than "buildings".

What about Software architecture, Computer architecture, Information architecture ??

e.g. for "the manipulation of space" in very first paragraphs, could the "space" be "cyberspace" ?

-- 58.136.73.145 08:19, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Definitions

I think that the seemingly ambiguous nature of the definition of architecture could be elucidated by defining the etymology of it better. What is described is how architecture is thought of today in terms of the immediately tangible (with hand or mind). Rather, looking back to Greece and their use of edification in building can lend a more concise understanding. Arche- roughly meaning knowledge (think Jungian Archetypes) combined with Tekton- or the structure of a thing. This gives us the definition of Architecture as the structure of knowledge, or the structure of the occurance of knowing. This definition better transcends the boundary between the "real" and the metaphysical aspects of architecture. Architecture is descriptor for a state of the mind, strictly, and should not be confused with the profession of building. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.27.130.133 (talk) 21:29, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]