Architecture is gardening.
Large software projects are living things. They grow, adapt, and sometimes run wild. The way we design them - and the way we design the organisations that build them - determines whether they flourish or wither. Over the years, I’ve come to see architecture not as a static blueprint or a master plan, but as an act of cultivation. This article is the first in a series exploring my personal philosophy of architecture: how we can guide complex systems, human and technical, with the same care and intention as a gardener tending a landscape. ...