What is the level of architecture in large software?

Question

Software design

Hello everyone, while reading "Perfect Code", I did not fully understand the block with architecture and design. In it, McConnell wrote that the designer in more or less large projects must prescribe not just components, but even classes in the module, sometimes even individual methods. Does it even exist in practice? Never encountered this.

Answer 1

It's like Schrödinger's cat: it exists and it doesn't exist at the same time.
Some projects have it, others don't.