What are buildings and structures?

Buildings in a broad sense refer to all artificially built buildings, including structures; Buildings in a narrow sense only refer to houses and buildings, excluding structures.

Houses and buildings refer to the spaces and places composed of enclosure structures that can shelter people from the wind and rain, provide people with life, work, production and life, store entertainment items or carry out other activities. Such as houses, apartments, dormitories, offices, shopping malls, hotels, hotels, theaters and so on. Corresponding structures refer to buildings other than houses, in which people generally do not carry out production and living activities. Such as chimneys, wells, roads, bridges, tunnels and dams. In layman's terms, it is generally an uninhabited building, and the rest are buildings.

Architecture in a general sense usually refers to architecture in a narrow sense.