The Best New Architecture Study eBooks To Read In 2025

Preparing for your iSAQB CPSA—Foundation Level exam? Make the grade with this study guide! First, tackle essential topics and fundamentals, beginning with development approaches and design techniques for scalable software architectures. Then see how views, templates, and documents are used to communicate design decisions, and understand how to evaluate software architectures. Level up your exam prep with this handy resource!

Prepare for the iSAQB Certified Professional for Software Architecture—Foundation Level (CPSA-F) examLearn to design scalable system software architecturesWalk through techniques for software architecture planning, documentation, and quality management. Fundamentals of Software Architecture. Reinforce your understanding of key concepts, including software architecture design principles, techniques to develop scalable architectures, tools needed to describe designs to stakeholders, and methods for quality evaluation. Core Exam Concepts. Thoroughly review each topic in the exam: basic concepts, architecture design and development, architecture communication, and quality analysis. Expand your knowledge with a bonus chapter about software architecture tools. Expert Guidance. Learn directly from iSAQB experts who helped develop the curriculum for the Certified Professional for Software Architecture—Foundation Level exam. iSAQB CPSA—Foundation Level examArchitecture designDevelopment approachesArchitectural patternsTemplatesDocumentationPrototypesQuality managementDeploymentModeling toolsStatic code analysis toolsCode management.

The latest and most authoritative version of the popular step-by-step tutorial for Revit Architecture. The newly revised third edition of Revit 2024 for Architecture: No Experience Required is the latest update to the market-leading, real-world guide for learning and building with Revit―the powerful and sophisticated Building Information Modeling (BIM) software used by professionals around the world. This popular, user-friendly book teaches you the Revit interface and helps you understand the foundational concepts and features of the software.

You’ll learn to design, document, and present a 3D BIM project with a continuous, step-by-step tutorial that guides you through every phase of the project: from placing walls, doors, windows, structural elements, dimensions, and text, to generating documentation, advanced detailing, site grading, construction scheduling, material takeoffs, and more. In addition, this book helps you prepare for the Autodesk Revit Architecture Certification Exam. Throughout the book, you will find helpful insights directly related to the exam. The last two chapters are dedicated entirely to the exam with a practice test at the end of the book. You’ll also: Learn each phase of designing, documenting, and presenting a four-story office building using a simple yet engaging continuous tutorialFollow the tutorial sequentially or jump to any chapter by downloading the project files from the Sybex websiteUse the start-to-finish tutorial project as a reference for your own real-world projects and to develop a powerful Revit skillsetGain thorough knowledge of Revit’s essential concepts and features to make the move from 2D drafting to 3D building information modelingGet up to speed with advanced features, including new coverage of advanced walls, families, sites, topography, and more. The Autodesk Revit 2024 for Architecture: No Experience Required, 3rd Edition, is the go-to guide for professionals and students seeking to learn Revit’s essential functions quickly and effectively.

Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring pedagogical approaches, and leading institutions of American architecture education. Beginning with the emergence of architecture as a profession in Philadelphia and ending with the early work, but unfinished international effort, of making room for women and people of color in positions of leadership in the field, this collection offers an important history of architecture education relevant to audiences both within and outside of the United States.

Other themes include the relationship of professional organizations to educational institutions; the legacy of late nineteenth-century design concepts; the role of architectural history; educational changes and trans-Atlantic intellectual exchanges after WWII and the Cold War; the rise of the city and urban design in the architect’s consciousness; student protests and challenges to traditional architecture education; and the controversial appearance of environmental activism. This collection, in other words, provides a relevant history of the present, with topics of concern to all architects studying and working today.