Architecture Redux

Perhaps architecture is simply the attainment of leverage over time. Developers become most productive when they have lain a foundation that allows them to hook into things already built. As an artist would have - a library of techniques, objects, building blocks... tinker toys. These devices can comprise a foundation... because they operate within consistent constraints. They (the devices) capture principles which are the only things we can rely on to guide us as we attempt to gain leverage into the future. Arkowitz