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type of architecture

n. architecture as a kind of art form [syn: architectural style, style of architecture]

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But the disposition of the ruins, which lay in a sort of arc for almost the entire extent of a low, gneissic, league-long elevation of bare, eroded stone, together with the type of architecture, soon convinced us that we had found our goal.

Like all the cities and isolated buildings of Barsoom, it was surrounded by a lofty wall, but in other respects it differed materially from the usual Barsoomian type of architecture.

Far from being related to the inverted cone-type of architecture of the Arkonides, the structures reflected an alien concept of design.