The blog

Notes on architectural modelling.

Working out what a modelling tool for practising architects ought to be.

  1. From model to app in an hour

    I built a small web app, in about an hour, not based on a prompt, but a data model in EOModeller. I exported it as XMI, and handed it to Claude with a one-page spec. Why the model, not the prompt, was the part that mattered.

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  2. The shape of an architectural artefact

    Every architectural artefact lives in a two-dimensional space of formality and detail — and the work of architecture is moving through it. Why existing tools fight that movement, and what a quadrant-native tool looks like.

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  3. Why create models?

    Most architects can describe how they model in detail — the notation, the tool, the metamodel. Fewer can say why. Seven distinct reasons architects model, and the trap of building tools for only one of them.

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