Architecture I

Frank Lloyd Wright: Falling Water

Architecture:

The science or profession of designing & constructing buildings or other structures.

Science:

A branch of knowledge dealing with a body of facts or truths obtained by direct observation, experimental investigation, and methodical study, systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws.

Technology:

Applied science: the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical methods and materials, and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment.

Technics:

The science of an art or of the arts in general.

Tectonics:

The science or art of shaping, ornamenting, or assembling materials in construction. 

Architectonics:

The unifying structure or concept of an artistic work.

Engineering: 

The art and science of applying scientific principles to practical ends in the design and construction of structures, equipment and systems.

Firmness:

The state of quality of being solidly constructed.