Architectware

Usually a little box on a diagram that a solutions architect has drawn. This diagram will bare absolutely no resemblance to any kind of real software ever developed ever. Yet in the architects head - and in the minds of management they talk to it is a real and possible thing, with an arbitrary delivery date.

Developer: Oh no, Ray the architect wants me to build this bit of Architectware - apparently it will only take me a week.

Every other technically aware person on the team: Oh %*&£!

by honestalice April 15, 2013

architecture studio

1: Where architecture students go to work. They live and will die in there. All hopes and dreams are lost, and time is fake. Also, they get so tired and sleep deprived that even a toaster will turn them on.

2: A reference to where architecture students are.

Friend 1: Where is Alex?
Friend 2: Where do you think? At architecture studio.
Friend 1: That poor prick. My prayers to him.

by KSU2016 February 11, 2013

Architecture In Helsinki

An awesome Avant-garde band from Australia, uses a wide array of instruments and produces a wide array of awesome.

Band Members

Cameron Bird
James Cecil
Gus Franklin
Isobel Knowles
Jamie Mildren
Sam Perry
Tara Shackel
Kellie Sutherland

Albums

Fingers Crossed (2003, Trifekta)
In Case We Die (2005, Tailem Bend/Bar-None/Moshi Moshi)

Singles and EPs

Like A Call (2003, Trifekta, out of print)
Kindling (2003, Trifekta, out of print)
Keepsake (2004, Trifekta, out of print)
Do The Whirlwind (2005, Tailem Bend)
Maybe You Can Owe Me/It'5! (2005, Moshi Moshi)

Can I ride with you
Until the sunset gets all red?
And we'll get chased by the moon

- Architecture In Helsinki lyrics

by Cheesegod January 26, 2006

architectural humor

Humor that focuses explicitly on engineering (not architectural) downfalls, particularly the failure to adequately develop sound structural foundations. Furthermore, this body of humor focuses particularly on the poor education, living standards, and general hygiene that have led to the training of under-qualified and inexperienced engineers who, in turn have been unable to execute sound excavation practices.

Will: Haha, look at that stupid pink building, it sure does suck
Dan: Wow Will, do you just use architectural humor?
Will: Yes Dan.....Yes I did

by Sue Do-Nym February 4, 2010

Architecture 1

A grid system in four parts: site, threshold, damage, and a shaky content that's subject to change. Or: a way of holding things in one place long enough to understand what's happening. Narrative. Then it rains. It rains for three days straight, and the city disappears. Then you disappear. I am thinking of the night you opened the door of your house and threw the book into the garden. Dark garden. An intermediary text, architecture is not for babies. Architecture is not for the house, but what surrounds it. If the grid gets wet, then you just slide off it, into the rain. This is an act of repetition made possible by the structure, but only when the structure fails.

"Hey mister! If I'd of wanted architecture, I'd of asked for architecture." "It's architecture 1, dummy." "Who you calling dummy?" "You, dummy." "Don't call me dummy. Architecture 1, my ass." "I love it when you talk dirty." "Oh shut up, do you want me to come over there and..." "Oh shut your pie-hole. This ain't a donut shop, in case you hadn't noticed." "No, I hadn't, actually."

by Bhanu: A Failed Novelist January 29, 2008

Ar. Architect

a term used to denote a lame Indian architect who is obsessed with his Ar. prefix and use it as his first name in every social media profiles. He also constantly blames Engineers and Diploma Holders to hide his incompetent and mediocre skills in Architecture. Also believes architecture is above all and the best profession in the world and he must be respected for that.

Look at this ugly building, this must be designed by an Ar. Architect

He lost bid to that project, now he blames the engineers, such an Ar. Architect

by Ar. Kapeesh Nair June 3, 2021

Industrial Architecture

These are structures and buildings such as factories, furnaces, power plants, manufacturing facilities, heavy-duty pipes, etc. Industrial architecture also descibes the features and appearance of these industrial structures. Buildings of industrial architecture are usually found in scattered areas inside or outside the outer fringes of a city, or amassed in a large designated area known as an industrial park.

Industrial architecture can be found everywhere and in every town. The cover of the Alan Parsons Project album "Ammonia Avenue", features a road surrounded by a large system of heavy-duty industrial pipes carrying ammonia and other chemicals.

by ME December 20, 2004