<div dir="ltr">that's pretty much how i'd use it too (having spent 30 years meeting people who design styles of construction of living spaces, but dont often actually build buildings, i'm stuck with the le courbusier, gaudi, foster, rogers, gehry meaning:)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:07 PM, John Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeanjour@comcast.net" target="_blank">jeanjour@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I basically use the dictionary definition of "a style of construction." The important distinction being between an architecture and buildings built to that architecture. (I don't remember what dictionary I found that in. It was 30 years ago.)<br>
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I would say that 90% of the usage in the field refers buildings, rather than *architectures.*<br>
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For example, the 7-layer OSI model is a building, not an architecture.<br>
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Take care,<br>
John<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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At 4:35 PM -0400 4/14/13, Noel Chiappa wrote:<br>
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> From: Jon Crowcroft <<a href="mailto:jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk</a>><br>
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> architecure remains as hard as ever<br>
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I'm interested to know what 'architecture' means to you both; I know what<br>
_I_ mean by the term, but I'm not sure the field as a whole has a consistent,<br>
well-understood meaning, yet.<br>
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Noel<br>
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