A diagram demonstrating a series of functional/spatial relationships is the most distant thing from design in architecture. Although the relationships are impor

A diagram demonstrating a series of functional/spatial relationships is the most distant thing from design in architecture. Although the relationships are important and may need to be maintained for the project, they rarely map literally into the projects actual physical embodiment. Architecture is an utterly holistic process that unifies physical structure, conceptual structure, aesthetics, finishes, functional programming (space planning), user experience into a physical entity that can be deciphered by its users. Designing a house "like a web application" addresses only one tiny part of this process. Maybe the author intended this as a critique of the process of designing a web app (I'm not sure, his conclusion was very brief) being too limited in its scope.