Read full poem →sented appeared under manifest disadvantage. The
edifice was a vast triumphal piece of architecture,
wholly unfit for every purpose of convenience ; the
Dictionary Entry
The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
In a Sentence
“Architecture is the visual public expression of a culture’s achievements, values, and outlook. ― Max Roscoe, "How Your City Is Killing You With Ugliness"”
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “architecture”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Our soules, whose faculties can comprehend
The wondrous Architecture of the world.
Read full poem →A little hut suffices like a town.
I make your sculptured architecture vain,
Vain beside mine. I drive my wedges home,
Read full poem →Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work,
The frolic architecture of the snow.
Read full poem →39. _Fretted_. The _fret_ is, strictly, an ornament used in classical
architecture, formed by small fillets intersecting each other at
right angles. Parker (_Glossary of Architecture_) derives the word
Read full poem →comfortable homes, may have much to say for herself. But as a corporate
soul she has no excuse. The dominant, shoddy architecture is as
eloquent as the red nose of a drunkard. I do not need to take pains to
Read full poem →Once I pass’d through a populous city imprinting my brain for future
use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,
Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met