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Abstract
Architecture is just a collective hunch, a shared hallucination, an assertion by a set of stakeholders on the nature of their observable world, be it a world that is or a world as they wish it to be. This article examines the technical and social factors that give rise to the value of architecture-as- artifact. © 2010 IEEE.