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Architecture is the art or science of designing? buildings; as well as the buildings themselves: "The architecture of Chicago has been created by a fantastic roll-call of famous architects"; and perhaps the artistic aspects of the buildings: "That cathedral? has the most interesting architecture."
The word architecture is also used for the design or act of designing other things. For example [computer architecture]?, [software architecture]?. In this case, it tends to refer to the overall structure.
Architecture is also the managing of spaces using materials? for example; colors? can be used to create different moods.
Types of architecture
Adobe is a type of material used in architecture, as well as the name of a type of architecture, related to stucco?.
Stylistic Periods of Architecture
- Neolithic
- Egyptian
- Ancient Mesopotamian
- Sumerian
- Babylonian
- Assyrian
- Persian
- Indian
- Islamic
- Chinese
- Japanese
- South East Asian
- Mayan
- Incan
- Aztec
- Minoan
- Mycenaean
- [Classical Architecture]?
- [Greek Architecture]?
- Roman Architecture
- Early Christian
- Ottonian
- Romanesque Architecture
- Gothic
- Renaissance
- Baroque
- Neoclassical
- Eclectic and Revival Styles
- Modernism
- Postmodernism
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