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and so forth ...
I'm definitely not surprised that the term "architecture" would be used heavily for computer and information technology, "the manner in which the components of a computer or computer system are organized and integrated" being the fifth definition of the word in Merriam-Webster Online. It's the structure of the components that justifies the term here, though structure is only one part of "architecture" when applied to building design, meaning their borrowing of the term only looks at a limited portion of it.
So what am I getting at here? I don't know exactly. It seems like there's a lot of other professions and other parts of society that like to borrow and, in a sense, redefine "architecture". Maybe architects just need to be aware of that, and potentially rethink what architecture is and what it can become.
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