Javascript does not have built-in support for modules, so he is using a library to have module support.
An anti-architecture (in the article's sense I think) might be people who just know jquery but do not know javascript or how the DOM, the browser api, etc.. works, some just use jquery for something that can be done with 10-15 lines of JS, but they don't know better, they lack the principles/architecture knowledge to do so.