📝What is Architecture?

• Architecture as what’s most important
• Architecture as things hard to change
  • with good architecture, there are few things that are hard to change
• Architecture as a shared understanding
• Architecture as a set of important decisions
• Theory Building View of programming—architecture as overarching theory
• Architecture as product design/specification
• Architecture is a buzzword
• Architecture as financial options

In other fields

• In building

• Enterprise architecture

  Enterprise architecture is a description of the structure and behavior of an organization’s processes, information flow, personnel, and organizational subunits aligned with organization’s core goals and strategic direction. —Bass…₂₀₁₃ p.8