Architecture and Building
Roles: builder, architect, blueprint, foundation, scaffold, material, structure, facade, interior
The design, construction, and maintenance of physical structures. Encompasses the full built environment: foundations and framing, facades and interiors, fire barriers and building codes, ornamental surfaces and load-bearing walls. The dominant metaphor family for software development and knowledge work — we build, architect, scaffold, and demolish. Structurally rich because it separates design from execution, foregrounds the idea that invisible foundations determine visible stability, and offers the distinction between public-facing surfaces and hidden internals.
As Source Frame (102)
- A Place to Wait → software-abstraction
- A Room of One's Own → organizational-behavior, software-abstraction
- Accessible Green → organizational-structure
- Activity Nodes → organizational-structure
- Alcoves → software-abstraction, organizational-behavior
- Argument Is a Building → argumentation
- Bankrupt → economics
- Bikeshedding → collaborative-work
- Break Down Barriers → organizational-behavior
- Building Complex → software-abstraction
- Building Edge → software-abstraction
- Cascade of Roofs → software-abstraction
- Cathedral and Bazaar → software-engineering, organizational-structure
- Ceiling Height Variety → software-abstraction
- Chesterton's Fence
- Circulation Realms → software-abstraction
- Common Areas at the Heart → organizational-structure
- Connected Buildings → software-abstraction
- Connection to the Earth → software-abstraction
- Creative Process Is Construction → creative-process
- Deep Reveals → software-abstraction
- Degrees of Publicness → information-security
- Different Chairs → software-abstraction
- Entrance Transition → software-abstraction
- Facade → software-engineering, organizational-behavior
- Family of Entrances → software-abstraction
- Filtered Light → software-abstraction
- Firewall → network-security
- Flexible Office Space → organizational-structure
- Form Follows Function → aesthetics
- Foundation Model Is a Foundation → artificial-intelligence
- Four-Story Limit → software-abstraction
- Good Materials → software-abstraction
- Gradual Stiffening → software-abstraction
- Half-Hidden Garden → software-abstraction
- Half-Private Office → organizational-structure
- Hierarchy of Open Space → software-abstraction
- Identifiable Neighborhood → organizational-structure
- Idols of the Cave
- Intimacy Gradient → software-abstraction
- Latticework of Mental Models
- Less Is More → aesthetics
- Light on Two Sides → creative-process
- Load-Bearing Pun → comedy-craft
- Main Entrance → software-abstraction
- Main Gateways → software-abstraction
- Margin of Safety
- Master and Apprentices → education
- Mosaic of Subcultures → organizational-structure, social-dynamics
- Natural Doors and Windows → software-abstraction
- Network of Learning → education
- Open Stairs → software-abstraction
- Organization Is Physical Structure → abstract-organization
- Ornament → software-abstraction
- Parasitic Architecture → software-engineering, organizational-behavior
- Paths and Goals → software-abstraction
- Piecemeal Growth → software-engineering
- Platform → computing
- Pools of Light → software-abstraction
- Positive Outdoor Space → software-abstraction
- Problem Is a Constructed Object → causal-reasoning
- Quiet Backs → software-abstraction, organizational-structure
- Redundancy
- Sacred Sites → organizational-structure
- Scaffolding in Therapy → psychotherapy
- Scaffolding → education, software-programs
- Scattered Work → organizational-structure
- Schema → mental-experience, software-programs
- Secret Place → software-abstraction
- Sheltering Roof → software-abstraction
- Short Passages → software-abstraction
- Site Repair → software-abstraction
- Sitting Circle → organizational-structure
- Small Panes → software-abstraction
- Small Services Without Red Tape → organizational-structure, software-abstraction
- Small Work Groups → organizational-structure
- Software Development Is Cathedral Building → software-engineering
- Software Habitability → software-engineering
- Something Roughly in the Middle → software-abstraction, organizational-behavior
- Staircase as a Stage → software-abstraction
- Street Windows → software-abstraction
- Structure Follows Social Spaces → software-abstraction
- System Resilience vs. Fragility
- Tapestry of Light and Dark → software-engineering
- The Builder Pattern → object-oriented-design
- The Composite Pattern → object-oriented-design
- The Decorator Pattern → object-oriented-design
- The Facade Pattern → software-abstraction
- The Flow Through Rooms → software-abstraction
- The Gateway Pattern → software-abstraction
- The Quality Without a Name → software-engineering
- Theories Are Buildings → intellectual-inquiry
- Theories Are Constructed Objects → intellectual-inquiry
- Thick Walls → software-abstraction
- Things from Your Life → software-abstraction
- Window of Tolerance → psychotherapy
- Window Place → software-abstraction
- Windows Overlooking Life → software-abstraction
- Wings of Light → software-abstraction
- Work Community → organizational-structure
- Workspace Enclosure → organizational-structure
- Zen View → software-abstraction
Applied To This Frame (1)
- embodied-experience → Window