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Prof. Edward Crawley has stated what an architecture is through the so-called FCF paradigm: "Architecture [..] consists of: Function, related by Concept, to Form". This definition has the merit to be simple, operative and applicable to all kind of engineered systems. However, by reviewing it thoroughly, we may expose some limitation, especially when trying to set-up a framework for architecture...
Steven Spielberg once said: “I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in twenty-five words or less, it's going to make a pretty good movie” [20]. If you replace ‘idea’ with ‘architecture’ (at a certain point a synonym … almost), and ‘movie’ with ‘system’, does the updated Spielberg's heuristic still resonate? Current practices and formalized...
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