What Student Architects Should Do

Simon Unwin (University of Dundee, UK)

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Routledge
02 June 2025

Architectural structure & design; Architecture: professional practice; Professional interior design; History of architecture; Civil engineering, surveying & building

Series: Analysing Architecture Notebooks

As a first year student the challenges of learning how to do architecture can be daunting. Though not prescribing a particular way (there are as many ways to do architecture as there are architects), this Notebook outlines what you should do to cultivate your own distinctive capacity for architectural design.

Architecture is a rich and varied subject, a multifaceted and multidimensional skill. Learning to do it is not easy. It has many subtleties. Becoming fluent can take many years. Informed by decades of discussing architecture and its challenges with students, this Notebook will help you lay foundations for a rewarding career as a creative architect.

All Simon Unwin’s books explore architecture not just as a matter of form and space but in terms of its primal driving force, the universal need and desire to make places for life.

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture: the Universal Language of Place-Making, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in four further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy.

By: Simon Unwin (University of Dundee UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781041001898
ISBN 10: 1041001894
Series: Analysing Architecture Notebooks
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 02 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Simon Unwin is one of the foremost writers of educational books on architecture. He has been teaching architecture since the 1970s. His book Analysing Architecture: The Universal Language of Place-Making is used in schools of architecture around the world.