Definition of architecting Architecting

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What does architecting mean?

Wiktionary

architecting (Verb)
Present participle of architect.

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architecting, verb, gerund of architect (infinitive).

WordNet

Noun Plural: architects
architect - someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
		designer
		creator a person who grows or makes or invents things
		landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper, landscapist someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively
		ithiel town, town the people living in a municipality smaller than a city; "the whole town cheered the team"

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Wiktionary

architect (Noun)
A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
architect (Noun)
A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
architect (Verb)
To design, plan, or orchestrate.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

architect (n.)
A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.
architect (n.)
A contriver, designer, or maker.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

architect
A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

architect
ärk′i-tekt, n. a master-builder: one who designs buildings and superintends their erection: a maker: any contriver, as the Creator.—adjs. Architecton′ic, pertaining to architecture: constructive: controlling, having direction: (metaph.) pertaining to the arrangement of knowledge.—n. the science of architecture: the systematic arrangement of knowledge.—adj. Architect′ural.—n. Architect′ure, the art or science of building: structure: in specific sense, one of the fine arts, the art of architecture—also used of any distinct style, e.g. Gothic, Byzantine architecture. [Gr. architektōn—archi-, chief, and tektōn, a builder.]

Wikipedia

An architect is a person who designs buildings and prepares plans to give to a builder. What he or she designs is called architecture. Architects make drawings with pens, pencils, and computers, and this is also called drafting. Sometimes they first make small toy-sized buildings called models to show what the building will look like when it is done. Some of these models survive for hundreds of years, eg at St Paul's Cathedral, London.

Architects decide the size and shape of a building, and what it will be made from. They are the key designers of any and all buildings. Architects need to be good at math and drawing and must have imagination. They must go to university and study for a long time. There are special tests that must be taken before becoming an architect. For example, the tests make sure that architects know how to make the building's structure safe, so that it will not collapse. They should also know how to make a building attractive, so that people will enjoy using it. To be an architect you must go to college or a university for 5 years.

Although there has been architecture for thousands of years, there haven't always been architects. The great European cathedrals built in the Middle Ages were designed by a Master Builder, who scratched his designs on flat beds of plaster. Paper did not exist in Europe at this time and vellum or parchment were very expensive and could not be made in large sizes. Some cathedrals took hundreds of years to build, so the Master Buil