The craft, properly applied, prevents drama. Robert McCall – Vision of Utopia Architecture puts compatible components together to deliver valuable functions. It aims to do this with the highest possible quality, at the lowest possible long-term cost. An expert architect will avoid predictable issues and predict unavoidable ones from experience.… Read the rest
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The existential threat to my sense of belonging to something grand and good. Image made by the author in Canva Pro ‘My granddad worked for IBM’ is what I’ve imagined my grandkids telling their friends. It has the cachet for me of ‘My granddad worked for NASA’ or (unfortunately, due to the slowness of human…
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Practical and consistent conventions from my experience Free image from Wikimedia Commons Architecture is a discipline. It is also a device that assists in thinking and communication. As the latter, architecture deals with the static and dynamic structure of an overall system through models constructed of defined components, their external features and relationships.… Read the rest
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