About the origin of architecture, there is a popular joke about big data:
Architecture is like teenage sex,everybody talks about it,nobody really knows what is it.
English is the architecture of Architecture, (a start I do not know, another word to understand: Wikipedia) in Wikipedia, the architecture is defined as:
Architecture is both the process and the product of planning,designing,and constructing buildings and other physical structures.
So how do you define architecture Architecture with Chinese do?
To a whole (all the work for human survival) cut into different parts (division), to complete the division of the different roles, and by a mechanism different parts communicate with each other, so that these portions can be organic binding as a whole, and the overall completion of all activities required, this is architecture.
Thus, the architecture can be summed up five power generated:
①, must (without human intervention, it means that no reform, there is no need of architecture) performed by the working people
②, each person's capacity is limited (everyone has their own strengths, individual output is limited to the shortest board, and due to structural limitations of people, but can only do one thing to focus on, for example, although there are two eyes but at the same time we can only focus on one thing, there are two hands, .ps can not do different things at the same time. Although there are a few people who may be left circle right frame, but this is not the norm)
③, limited everyone's time (in order to reduce investment in time, will inevitably lead to the decomposition work out for good at the role of work to complete, thus shortening the time)
④, people have higher requirements for the target system (if satisfied with the status quo, there is no need for a framework)
⑤, the complexity of the target system enables a single person to complete this system to meet the conditions 2, 3 (if an individual can be completed to improve the system, do not need other people involved, there is no need architecture involved, but craftsmen, and general this job is not urgent demands on time. when proficient enough after, there will be some architectural thinking, but more consideration is how to improve quality, increase efficiency of personal time)
So: in front of the five conditions are true, will produce architecture.
The summary of the final text to be refined as follows:
1, define the system boundary
2, segmentation system (parallel or serial work, generally parallel to reduce the time.)
3, establish a communication mechanism
4, an organic integrated, efficient completion
There is a saying good text, as the end of the film notes:
Divide together for a long, long period of division