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Architecture is the art and science of designing and constructing buildings and other structure for human use and shelter.

Architecture may also refer to:

Design of built environments

• Landscape architecture, the design of man-made land constructs
• Naval architecture, the science of design of water-borne vessels
• Vehicle architecture, an automobile platform common to different vehicles
• Architectural Technology, the application of technology to the design of buildings

Design of process systems

• Process architecture, the design of general process systems (computers, business processes, etc.)
  • Enterprise architecture, an architecture, or framework, for aligning an organization's systems
    • Enterprise information security architecture, or EISA, the portion of enterprise architecture focused on information security
  • Information architecture, the systems architecture for structuring the information flows in a knowledge-based system
  • Robotic architectures, the architecture of the hardware and software in robots
  • Systems architecture, the representation of an engineered system
  • Technical architecture, the technical definition of an engineered system

Publications

• Architecture: the AIA journal, published by the American Institute of Architects, 1983–2006
• Architecture (magazine, 1900–1936)

Art

• Architecture (Klee), a 1923 painting by Paul Klee

Biology

• Histopathologic architecture, the overall pattern formed by groups of cells
• Cytoarchitecture, the arrangement and interaction of cellular structures in the central nervous system
• Nuclear architecture, the arrangement and organization of chromatin inside the nucleus

Record labels

• Architecture Label, an Australian record label

Other uses

Architecture sometimes refers to:

• Architectural history, studies the evolution and history of architecture
• Architectural analytics
• Product design, or product architecture, the systems design of a product or product family