This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2022, held in Prague in September 2022.<br> The 9 full papers and 6 short papers were carefully selected from 47 submissions.<br> In the Research Track, 11 full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: components, APIs and interface management; architecting for data-driven systems; microservices and middleware; architecture modeling, design and decision making; architecture reconstruction and recovery.