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Ask HN: Any architects here? What's the best (serious) 'Architecture 101' book?
My dad always said he thought I'd make a good architect because I like thinking about qualitative, quantitative, and aesthetic design all at once. But in college I turned away from it because
A. I really prefer more traditional aesthetic philosophy and all the schools seemed dedicated to modernist/postmodernist philosophies I abhorred.
B. My friends in architecture programs grew disillusioned very quickly and switched to SWE, because of (A) and because the career outlook was very bleak, even from high-ranked programs.
But I'm finding that I would like to learn about architecture and there must be books that haven't been infected with a total bias for postmodernism. So I come to you.
- bdiesel 4y agoI think Francis Ching's Introduction to Architecture is a good intro. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Introduction+to+Architecture-p-9781118142066 https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Introduction+to+Architecture-p-9...
- bombcar 4y agoI am not an architect but I really really liked reading A Pattern Language and some of the other books in the series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language I recommend it to everyone, in fact.
- JoeMayoBot 4y agoI liked Fundamentals of Software Architecture/O'Reilly: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-software/9781492043447/?_gl=1*1ujv98b*_ga*MTA3NzUzNDQxNC4xNjY5MTUyMDg4*_ga_092EL089CH*MTY2OTE1MjA4OC4xLjEuMTY2OTE1MjExMC4zOC4wLjA https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-softwar....