Architect and Architecture

An independent architect
shouldn’t be guided by sensations
but by reflections.
– Hans Scharoun

M. E. ConwayFamous computer scientist and hacker who developed coroutines, UNCOL language, and worked on Pascal compiler. Formulated Conway’s law in his paper: “How do committees invent?” Datamation, 14, 4, pp. 28-31, April, 1968, p.28 formulated a law in 1968 in an article he wrote for Datamation, now widely known as Conway’s law, which says:

Organizations that design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

This law has even been taken further by several unknown authors, who expressed their experiences by saying:

• The architecture of a system is a copy of the architecture of the organization.
• The structure of a

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