Are Architectural Aspects Style-Dependent?

Over the past years, architectural aspects have been often defined as widely-scoped properties that naturally crosscut the boundaries of system components. This definition, however, neglects the concept of architectural style. Architectural styles prescribe different kinds of system decomposition and modularization by adopting distinct component and connector types. This position paper analyzes the influence exerted by architectural styles over the nature of architectural aspects in order to address the following research question: are architectural aspects style-dependent? Based on concrete examples, we claim that: (i) it is natural to make the assumption that some system concerns will be well modularized while others will not, depending on the selection of architectural style(s), and (ii) there are some concerns that are recurrently crosscutting independently of the architecture stylistic choices.