📚 From A to B in Architecture Design eBook | Architecture Student Guide

A new studio brief lands on your desk: blank site, blank page, deadline already ticking, and the hardest question in architecture school, “where do I even start?” From A to B in Architecture Design answers it with a step-by-step method that takes you from reading your site for the first time to presenting a concept your jury will remember.

The book, written with Tifa Studio, merges our most acclaimed guides, including the site analysis resource featured on ArchDaily, into one illustrated, practical handbook. No vague theory and no “just be creative”: a real process you can repeat on every project, in every studio.

📦 What’s inside

7 chapters, one complete design process:

• Site Analysis: a complete checklist of 30+ site factors, from context reading, climate and views to Lynch analysis, socio-economics and future scenarios, so you never miss what matters about your site. The factors are illustrated with built examples, such as MVRDV’s Les Belvédères for climate and Kéré Architecture’s Gando Primary School for natural structure.

• Program and Brief: decode what your brief is really asking for and turn a wall of requirements into clear design decisions.
• Precedent Analysis: illustrated case studies of real projects that show how leading offices solved the problems you are facing, and how to apply their lessons to your own design.

• Concept: a method for concepts that are innovative and defensible, not pulled out of thin air the night before the review.
• Space Principles: the core rules of spatial design, so your plans work as well as they look.
• Diagrams and Conceptual Models: representation techniques that make your ideas land with jurors and clients.
• Expert Tips and Tricks: advice from practising architects, condensed into pages you will come back to before every review.
• Unlimited Q&A: stuck on your own project? Write to [email protected], we answer.

🧩 Formats and compatibility

Illustrated PDF eBook. It opens in any PDF reader on a computer, tablet or phone.

🎯 Who it is for

• Architecture students who freeze at the start of every studio project.
• Students preparing for juries who want a stronger, clearer design narrative.
• Young architects who want a systematic process instead of guesswork.

💡 Good to know

• Written in collaboration with Tifa Studio (@tifa.studio).
• It will not give you ready-made answers; it gives you the tools to ask the right questions and find your own solutions.
• Single user license: you may not resell, rent or lend the book.
• Free lifetime updates of this eBook.
• Instant download after checkout.

🚀 Want more?

The Architecture Student Survival Mega Guide ($12) covers the rest of the degree: three illustrated guide volumes on studio, thesis and career, a Student OS planner, shortcut posters for ten programs and a 1,110 term glossary. It is also part of the Ultimate Bundle ($69 for all ten packs).