(According to Le Corbusier) His was a classic definition of architecture: ?the conscious, correct, and magnificent interplay of volumes assembled under light.?

By the simplest definition, architecture is the design of buildings, executed by architects. However, it is more. It is the expression of thought in building. It is not simply construction, the piling of stones or the spanning of spaces with steel girders. It is the intelligent creation of forms and spaces that in themselves express an idea.

http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-196620?ct=

?Commodity, firmness, and delight?: the ultimate synthesis

It has been generally assumed that a complete theory of architecture is always concerned essentially in someway or another with three interrelated terms, which, in Vitruvius' Latin text, are given as firmitas, utilitas, and venustas (i.e., structural stability, appropriate spatial accommodation, and attractive appearance)

(Useful stuff, also from Britannica)

Many of the replies are "looked up" definitions. I do not think that was exactly what the author was after when this thread was conceived.

However, I could be mistaken.

I think it's a STYLE of building, like:

• gothic
• arabesque
• medieval
• asian

it's the style in which something is constructed or is currently running. like "IEEE architecture"

our genitals are a part of the architecture of our design, yes, though it could be seen as slightly strange, by some, that you feel the need to bring human genitalia into the thread.

Being an architecture student, we aren't 100% told a straight answer because there isn't one, but yesterday I spoke to a guy in the year above who just left and came back to do a talk. He said it was "the organisation and development of space", which to me seems the perfect description.

However if your saying the architecture of the human body, then really you should use the word engineering or design. I supose architecture could be used as a colaborative word for design and engineering to an extent.