This workshop summary gives a brief overview on the workshop on "Architecting Dependable Systems" held in conjunction with ICSE 2004. It is organised as a twin workshop to another to be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Network (DSN 2004). This is an ambitious project that aims to promote cross-fertilization between the communities of software architectures and dependability. Both communities will benefit from the clarification of approaches that have been previously tried and succeeded, as well as those that have been tried but have not yet shown to be successful.