Chapter 9 The Role of the Architect
9.1 Introduction
Throughout this text, we have emphasized holism in the role of the architect, which places a great burden on the architect in terms of the number of considerations to be managed. This drive for holism can be misinterpreted as a failure to define a system boundary for the architect’s role. The architect is not the design team, the financial controller, the marketing executive, or the plant manager. To paraphrase Eberhardt Rechtin, the architect is not a generalist, but rather a specialist in simplifying complexity, resolving ambiguity, and focusing creativity.
The architect crafts the vision of the system and communicates that vision among the stakeholders and the extended project team. We ...
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