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# Architecture

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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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