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  1. example: There in Brazil, we use the word/concept architecting also for thinking big.
    • source: Also a brazilian.
    • creator: author:FA
    • type: [[collaborative]]?
  2. Perhaps "to architect" means to dream the impossible, to not engineer or build. If so, that would be swell way for architecture to offer alternatives to practicality, purpose, budget, schedule, predictablilty.
    • related: [[engineering]]?
    • source: Design-L, 14 Jan 2000
    • creator: author:jya
    • type: [[collaborative]]?

  3. to give intellectual structure to something
    • related: [[structure]]?
    • source: Design-L, 15 Jan 2000
    • creator: author:su
    • type: [[collaborative]]?
  4. Here in Brazil we use architecting ("arquitetar") also as plot or plan
    • related: [[plan]]?
    • source: Design-L, 15 Jan 2000
    • creator: author:mam
    • type: [[collaborative]]?
  5. It's like birthing - or parenting. Or am I confusing it with ... buildinging?
    • related: [[buildinging]]?
    • source: Design-L, 15 Jan 2000
    • creator: author:mk
    • type: [[collaborative]]?
  6. I believe the term was coined by software marketing people, since the high-level design of software is commonly called architecture.