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Some of my readers will have noticed that I have two blogs. This one entered on architecture with the other centred on critical thinking. Since many forms of architecture in business and IT were created out of the academic area of system thinking there is a huge overlap between both areas. Now in architecture you are in an area constant thinking and argument, unless you follow the internet lead architects that will just browse the internet to find thoughts of others to follow.
The thinking and the often fierce arguments among us architects are often seen by outsiders as something negative as we often need external input to come to a conclusion, if there are more than one architects in an organisation. While the arguments are often important to create something truly great they are in the same way often also very destructive. This is why it is important to follow positive critical thinking.
Critical finds its roots in dialect thinking were you start with a thesis followed by an anti-thesis that leads to a synthesis. That synthesis is often followed by another anti-thesis and an even better synthesis. The problem now often emerges that people are not trained in proper dialectic thinking. This is often due to trainers, who substitute compromise with synthesis. A synthesis is something were both the proponent and the holder of the opposite argument find that the synthesis is better than their original thought, while a compromise often implies that both have just found the least common denominator. For the best architecture thinking it is therefore important that we search for real synthesis instead of watering down everything with a result no-one is happy about.
