Original at http://www.ruthmalan.com/Journal/2014/2014JournalOctober.htm#Software_Architecture
In what follows, the caps are only meant to highlight the play on words. :-) It's just one of those ruff riffs, you know. The play is meant to highlight different understandings, not to suggest how the actual you reading here conceives of and delimits architecture. It is merely a thinking tool and rhetorical device. (Aside: "architect" may be a hat developers on the team all wear, or a role; we're setting that discussion aside here.)
“Software Architecture: It IS what you think” -- you already have a working knowledge of what software architecture is. Things like
- Organizing structure of the system – components and relationships