What do art criticism and systems engineering have in common? A lot more than you’d think.

This essay is a personal reflection on Week 1 of the MIT xPRO Systems Architecture course. The following textbook is used as a reference: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/system-architecture-strategy/9780136462989/

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/van-gogh-the-starry-night

Imagine you are tasked with deconstructing Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” . What inherent…