Anatomy of architectural criticism: professional problems

Problems of Nervous Anatomy

The anatomy of inverse problems

A major task of geophysics is to make quantitative statements about the interior of the earth. For this reason, inverse problems are an important area of geophysical research and industrial application. Figure 1 shows how many texts present inverse problems. The earth model is an element of a mathematical space that contains all allowable parameterizations of the earth’s properties (or at least...

An Exploration of Architectural Innovation in Professional Service Firms

AN EXPLORATION OF ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE FIRMS by Fernando Espinosa Vasconcelos

Criticism of Benacerraf’s Criticism of Modern Eleatics

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...

Difficulty of Architectural Decisions - A Survey with Professional Architects

Much research exists on architectural decisions, but little work describes architectural decisions in the real-world. In this paper, we present the results of a survey with 43 architects from industry. We study characteristics of 86 real-world architectural decisions and factors that contribute to their difficulty. Also, we compare decisions made by junior architects and senior architects. Fina...