architecture n. - 1 The art and science of building, including its planning, making, and decoration. 2 the style and manner in which buildings are made: the architecture of ancient Greece.
Lat. 'architèct-us'; Gk. 'architèkt-on', from 'arch-è', meaning superiority, primacy, excellence, and 'tèkt-on', creator (see 'tèych-o', to create, 'tèchn-e', art), thus head of creators; Skt. root 'taksh*', to do, to compose; o. Pers. 'takhsh', to create.