architectonics
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- noun The science of architecture.
- noun Structural design.
- noun The scientific systematization of knowledge.
Examples
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In her other blog, The Merry Scribbler, PrairieMary has some good things to say about the "architectonics" of writing-- and it is NOT pretentious.
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The cover of his black-bound tech-heavy book about the architectonics of nuclear war features a photo of two hands in a firm handclasp, each hand touchingly identified as, respectively, “United States” and “Russia.”
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A century later, in the first half of the sixteenth century, Nicholas Copernicus took upon himself to rearrange the architectonics of our solar system, but about the size of the universe he would only say, guardedly, that it is immense, whatever that means (A. Koyré, Ch. III).
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His short poems are always admirably built, the endings complete and unexpected; the architectonics of his long poems leave much to be desired.
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Equitable Nature herself, who carries her mathematics and architectonics not on the face of her, but deep in the hidden heart of her, -- Nature herself is but partially for him; will be wholly against him, if he constrain her not!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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Inevitably, a writer who values style above all will find that the most important element in good writing is not architectonics - the large structure, the deep theme, the buried symbol - but the basic building block of prose, the sentence.
Note
The word 'architectonics' comes from ultimately from a Greek root meaning 'builder'.
