Strategy is a universal term that has its origin in the word “strategos” meaning in ancient Greek “the art of the general”. Strategy came from military and has now spread to any planned action to achieve a predefined goal.

But it has to be considered that most military see the use of the word in other fields as heretic.

The same has happened with the word architecture which was originally used in the world of construction. The etymology derives from the word architect, “arkhitekton”, meaning master builder or director of works.

In plain language, architecture can be defined as the “master plan” to build something. Nowadays, the term is used to define IT Architecture, Business Architecture, Marketing Architecture, Sound Architecture, etc.

Of course the original users of the word consider its application to homologous fields as a heresy.

The role of architects is to define and monitor the master plan of something that needs to be built. But it has to be considered that master plans are only needed when problems are complex. That is the space for architects. There is no need of architects to build something that is simple.

Architects need to transform the open boundaries of a complex problem, accepting that they need to deal with the emptiness of an unknown solution, into a master plan that is hollow, allowing both the builder and the user to find a place within the “construction”.

Unicist Architecture approaches the nature of the open boundaries and the empty space using the ontology of the unified field of the solution which defines a structural and functional plan to make a building that is within the ontology of architecture as it was defined by Vitrivius (Century I B.C.): utilitas, venustas, firmitas: utility, aesthetics and solidity.

The architect’s role is the building of something useful and aesthetic envisioning a solution in a field that is empty and has open boundaries. Science, technology and art are the three aspects that an architect needs to integrate in order to build a true solution.

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Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is a pioneer in complexity science research. More than 4,000 ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution, including the development of ontology based and business object driven solutions for businesses.