1563 Shute (title) The first and chief Grounds of Architecture vsed in all the auncient and famous monyments.

1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 9 Architecture, that is to say, the scyence of building.

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful ii. §17. 63 The management of light is a matter of importance in architecture.

1800 J. Charnock (title) History of Marine Architecture.

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. i. 7 Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man..that the sight of them contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 292 Architecture, as distinguished from mere building, is the decoration of construction.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 381 [If] the great Cities Anchiale and Tarsus were built..both in one day.. Certainely, it was the greatest Architecture of one day, since that great one of sixe. View more context for this quotation

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 24 Carriages and Leavers and Scaffolds are [necessary] in Architecture.

1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) v. sig. K3 On these two pillars stood the stately frame, and architecture of my loftie house.

1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxix. 32 The ruins of their architecture are the schools of modern builders.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 291 Architecture, especially if it be of stone.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 133 The adjectitious buildings are of no mean Architecture.

1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice II. vi. 154 Many other architectures besides Gothic.

1883 Rideing in Harper's Mag. July 180/1 The Queen Anne architecture of the day.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. ii. vii The wondrous architecture of the world.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 50 Hieroglyphicall Emblems..made ready, and squared for the architecture of this discourse.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 391 Millions of opaque globes..constitute the moving order of its architecture.

1875 L. H. Grindon Life (new ed.) xxvi. 337 In beautiful and ingenious architecture, the birds, the bees, and the wasps, have been competitors.

1907 F. R. Sabin in Morris & McMurrich Human Anat. (ed. 4) v. 490 (heading) The Architecture of the Heart.

1936 Discovery Nov. 363/1 The architecture of molecules.

1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music i. 1 We speak of the ‘architecture’ of a symphony, and call architecture, in its turn, ‘frozen music’.

1962 ‘C. E. Maine’ Darkest of Nights ii. 32 He's our protein chemistry expert and he knows a great deal about the architecture of the Hueste virus.

1962 F. Brooks in W. Buchholz Planning Computer Syst. ii. 5 Computer architecture, like other architecture, is the art of determining the needs of the user..and then designing to meet those needs as effectively as possible.

1964 IBM Jrnl. Res. & Devel. 8 87 (heading) Architecture of the IBM System/360.

1964 IBM Jrnl. Res. & Devel. 8 87 The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation.

1967 H. Hellerman Digital Computer Syst. Princ. viii. 328 A most important factor in machine architecture is the recognition of the increasingly important role of the high-level languages as the principal medium of user-system interaction.

1975 Sci. Amer. May 35/1 One architecture may emphasize facility of arithmetic operations and another may stress convenience of input and output operations.

1979 G. D. Kraft & W. N. Toy Mini/Microcomputer Hardware Design iii. 121 In the most widely used minicomputer architecture, the CPU communicates with main memory over a high-speed store bus; all program-controlled operations involving external devices are required to take place over a separate I/O bus.

1981 I. Flores Data Base Archit. i. 22 All three data base architectures have implementations which compete on the marketplace.

1984 Freetime Autumn 51/2 (advt.) Fast, powerful 32-bit architecture: allows windowing..and multi-tasking.

1985 Which Computer? Apr. 20 (advt.) Because of its multi-processor architecture, its performance doesn't deteriorate as more users are added.

1838 Keats's Fingal's Cave in Staffa in Plymouth & Devonport Weekly Jrnl. 20 Sept. 4/1 This was architectured thus By the great Oceanus!

1893 Strand Mag. 6 268/1 The house..was architectured by John Belcher from plans by its owner.

1939 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Journey to War 120 The slope has been architectured into terraces.