Pragmatic Architecture

Pragmatic architecture

Two divergent sets of activities both fall under the term architecture. One type of architecture strives toward higher levels of abstraction that are more portable across platforms and less connected to the messy details of hardware, networks, electrons, and photons. The extreme form of this approach results in the ivory tower.

Ivory tower architecture

A Kubrick-esque clean room inhabited by aloof gurus and decorated with boxes and arrows on every wall – decrees emerge from the ...