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๐ก Every Great Project Starts the Same Way. Most Students Were Never Taught It.
A new studio brief lands on your desk. Blank site, blank page, deadline already ticking, and the hardest question in architecture school staring at you: “Where do I even start?”
From A to B in Architecture Design answers that question once and for all. It’s a step-by-step design method that takes you from reading your site for the very first time to presenting a concept your jury will remember. The book merges our most acclaimed guides, including the site analysis resource featured on ArchDaily, into one illustrated, practical handbook.
No vague theory. No “just be creative.” A real process you can repeat on every project, in every studio, for the rest of your career. Once the method becomes habit, the blank page stops being frightening and starts being the best part of the week.
๐ What’s Inside: 7 Chapters, One Complete Design Process
- Site Analysis: Featured on ArchDaily and hailed as one of the best guides on the subject. Includes a complete checklist of 30+ site factors (context reading, climate, views, Lynch analysis, socio-economics, future scenarios and more) so you never miss what matters about your site.
- Program and Brief: Decode what your brief is really asking for, and turn a wall of requirements into clear design decisions.
- Precedent Analysis: Learn from built masterpieces through illustrated case studies of real projects. See how world-class offices solved the same problems you’re facing, and apply their lessons to your own design.
- Concept: A method for generating 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 instantly with jurors and clients.
- Expert Tips and Tricks: Hard-won advice from practicing architects, condensed into pages you’ll come back to before every review.
๐ After Reading, You’ll Be Able To:
โ Start any project with confidence, knowing exactly what to analyze, in what order, and why
โ Build a design story that flows logically from site to program to precedent to concept
โ Defend your decisions in front of a jury, because every one of them has a reason behind it
โ Communicate ideas with diagrams and models that speak for themselves
๐ฏ Who Is This For?
โ Architecture students who freeze at the start of every studio project
โ Students preparing for juries who want a stronger, clearer design narrative
โ Young architects who want a systematic process instead of guesswork
โ Anyone who feels their designs are good but can’t explain why
โ๏ธ Why I Wrote This Book
I was that struggling student: new language, new school, and a creative field with no instruction manual. Through years of research, work with professors, and a lot of trial and error, I found the systematic steps that transformed my design process. This book is those steps, distilled into the guide I wish someone had handed me in my first year.
It won’t give you ready-made answers. It gives you something better: the tools to ask the right questions and find your own solutions. That’s the difference between copying a style and becoming a designer.
โ๏ธ Collaboration with @tifa.studio, from the team behind illustrarch, the resource platform used by thousands of architecture students worldwide.
๐ฆ Package Contains
- The From A to B in Architecture Design eBook: the complete 7-chapter design method
- Unlimited Q&A: stuck on your own project? Write to us anytime, we answer
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Angelino –
Very comprehensive book