When we read about design patterns on the internet we note that there are 3 categories:
Design Patterns differ from Architectural Patterns in their scope, they are more localized, they have less impact on the code base, they impact a specific section of the code base, for example:
How to instantiate an object when we only know what type needs to be instantiated at run time (maybe a Factory Class?)
How to make an object behave differently according to its state (maybe a state machine, or a Strategy Pattern?)
Architectural Patterns have an extensive impact on the code base, most often impacting the whole application either horizontally (ie. how to structure the code inside a layer) or vertically (ie. how a request is processed from the outer layers into the inner layers and back). Examples of Architectural Patterns: Model-View-Controller, Model-View-ViewModel