I've been trying to learn more about architecture in order to steal ideas for building software. I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearing_layers really interesting. I think somebody already shared

How Buildings Learn

, but I found that there's a TV series (available in Youtube ). I watch only the first episode so far, but I found really interesting that even in architecture the maintenance of a building is considered a problem. Would love to hear ideas of what the below layers could mean to software

David Kirsh at UCSD has been thinking about the relationship between architecture and HCI. He just gave a talk at Stanford last week on the subject. See his paper “Do Architects and Designers Think Differently?” https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3301425

from the section on Services

Many buildings are demolished early if their outdated systems are too deeply embedded to replace easily

@George yeah, it seems so much like starting a project from scratch!