What is Architectural Design?

Well of course a blog about Architectural Design has to start off with an explanation about it!

What is Architectural Design?

According to Business Dictionary.com:

Concept that focuses on the components or elements of astructure or system and unifies them into a coherent andfunctional whole, according to a particular approach in achieving the objective(s) under the given constraints or limitations.

According to pubs.opengroup.org:

Architecture design is a technically complex process, and the design of heterogeneous, multi-vendor architectures is particularly complex

According to architectural.about.com:

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he word architectural can describe anything related to architecture and building design