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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: architecture @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | ARCHITECTURE [architecture] the art of building in which human requirements and construction materials are related so as to furnish practical use as well as an aesthetic solution, thus differing from the pure utility of engineering construction. |
 | | See also articles under countries, e.g., American architecture ; styles, e.g., baroque ; periods, e.g., Gothic architecture and art ; individual architects, e.g., Andrea Palladio ; individual stylistic and structural elements, e.g., tracery, orientation ; specific building types, e.g., pagoda, apartment house. |
 | | In Egyptian architecture, to which belong some of the earliest extant structures to be called architecture (erected by the Egyptians before 3000 BC), the post-and-lintel system was employed exclusively and produced the earliest stone columnar buildings in history. |
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