1. Architectural Thinking What is Architecture? © Ingo Arnold

2. WHAT Dimension WHAT Fundamental definitions WHY Motivation and requirements WHERE Views and perspectives WHEREBY Means and techniques WHO Roles and organisations HOW Methodologies and processes

12. Architectural disorientation Why bother?

22. All too often reality

23. All too often reality Maintaining a shantytown is labor-intensive and requires a broad range of skills. One must be able to improvise repairs with the materials on-hand, and master tasks from roof repair to ad hoc sanitation. However, there is little of the sort of skilled specialization that one sees in a mature economy.

24. All too often reality

25. All too often reality All too many of our systems are, architecturally, little more than shantytowns. Investment in tools and infrastructure is too often inadequate. Tools are usually primitive, and infrastructure such as libraries and frameworks, is undercapitalized. Individual portions of the system grow unchecked, and the lack of infrastructure and architecture allows problems in one part of the system to erode and pollute adjacent portions.

29. Symptoms of immature architectures System complexity Architecture relevance