In the mid-1960s, Fazlur Khan created a hierarchy of structural systems, ranging from two-dimensional moment resisting frames to three-dimensional tubular systems, to aid designers in making efficient choices to resist lateral loads. While this hierarchy has historically been a valuable tool for designers, the ever-advancing modeling and computational capabilities have enabled far more exotic structures to become inhabitable possibilities. This implies that few modern systems obey this classical hierarchy, requiring a new approach to classify structural systems and their applicability to modern practice as both a design aid and educational tool for future designers. Therefore, this thesis will respond to this need by modernizing the hierarchy, not from first principles or theory, but actually from practice by mining the attributes of constructed systems already in existence. The result of this thesis is a newly proposed system descriptor, a database structure and procedure to generate modern hierarchies that can be dynamically updated with time.