Tectonics

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·noun The science or art by which implements, vessels, buildings, ·etc., are constructed, both in relation to their use and to their artistic design.

II. Tectonics ·noun The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas.