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 (14)

• A Place to Wait → software-abstraction
• Argument Is a Building → argumentation
• Bikeshedding → collaborative-work
• Creative Process Is Construction → creative-process
• Firewall → network-security
• Intimacy Gradient → software-abstraction
• Light on Two Sides → creative-process
• Main Entrance → software-abstraction
• The Builder Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Composite Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Decorator Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Facade Pattern → software-abstraction
• The Gateway Pattern → software-abstraction
• Theories Are Buildings → intellectual-inquiry