Are there architecture smells?

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Published on 2011-02-18T13:56:24Z Indexed on 2011/02/18 15:33 UTC
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There are tons of resources on the web referring to and listing code smells. However, I've never seen information on architectural smells. Is this defined somewhere, and is there a list available? Has any formal research been done into architecture defects, and their impact on project speed, defects, and the like?

Edit: I wasn't really looking for a list in the answers, but documentation (on the web or in a book) about architecture smells.

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