Aside - Why do we need the word "architecting" anyway? Why not just use designing?
Well, Agile, Scrum, and backlogs took care of that. /s
Anyway, "you sit down and think before you build" is indeed what you want and the word for that is "strategy".
In construction, architects and designers do different jobs. The software equivalents of those roles map reasonably well to the construction equivalents.