Architecture principles are a very popular tool in the enterprise architect's tool box. The underlying concept of 'comply or explain', however, makes them particularly toxic. Architecture principles ...

With growing interest in computer security and the protection of the code and data which execute on commodity computers, the amount of hardware security features in today’s processors has recently ...

Teams can make any decision after seeking advice from affected parties and documenting it in an ADR. Use context maps to assign clear ownership of system areas to specific teams. Create architectural ...

"City planning" is an easily understood metaphor that architects can employ to communicate more effectively the nature and value of architecture by relating the "unseen" enterprise architecture to ...

“So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve ...

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Salk Institute / Louis Kahn. Image © Flickr user naq licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 It is safe to say that architects, academics, critics and even the public have been ...

Le Corbusier may have been one of the most influential and prolific modern architects of the 20th century, but I'd never had a chance to step inside one of the Swiss-born visionary's structures until ...