Eine Gruppe Studenten bewundert die Architektur der Häuser am Kollwitzplatz. A group of students admires the architecture of the buildings on Kollwitzplatz.

noun · C1

die Architektur

[aʁçitɛkˈtuːɐ̯]

architecture

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Other Examples

Ich verstehe nicht viel von Architektur, aber dieses Haus hat einfach Charakter.

I don't know much about architecture, but this building simply has character.
Was gefällt euch an der Architektur der Gründerzeit am besten?

What do you like best about late-nineteenth-century architecture?
Frau Hilde findet, gute Architektur müsse vor allem den Menschen dienen, die darin wohnen.

Frau Hilde thinks good architecture should above all serve the people who live in it.

Declension

The noun in the four cases, with the definite article.

Case	Singular	Example
Nominative wer? was?	die Architektur
Accusative wen? was?	die Architektur
Dative wem?	der Architektur
Genitive wessen?	der Architektur

How the Word Is Built

Architekt root ur suffix

Word family

der Architektdie Architektinarchitektonisch

In Otti's situations: Frau Hilde and the history of her building

der Altbau baufällig das Baujahr die Bausubstanz behutsam denkmalgeschützt der Dielenboden der Erker die Fassade das Geländer das Gerüst die Geschichte

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