ar‧chi‧tec‧ture S3 W3 / ɑkətektʃə, ɑkɪtektʃə $ ɑrkətektʃər / 名词

1 [不可数名词] the style and design of a building or buildings

architecture of

the architecture of Venice

modern/classical/medieval etc architecture

2 [不可数名词] the art and practice of planning and designing buildings :

He studied architecture at university.

3 [不可数名词] the structure of something :

the architecture of DNA

4 [可数和不可数名词] technical the structure of a computer system and the way it works

— architectural / ɑkətektʃ ə rəl◂, ɑkɪtektʃ ə rəl◂ $ ɑr- / 形容词 :

architectural features

— architecturally 副词 :

Architecturally, Chengdu is quite different from most of China.