An essential resource offering 101 succinct lessons about construction basics, the business of architecture, and personal development.

The RIBA Job Book is the Royal Institute of British Architects’ long-established and recognised standard reference for running construction projects.

Architect? addresses issues and concerns of relevance to students choosing among different types of programme, schools, firms and architectural career paths, and explores both the up-side and the down-side to the profession.

And if you are just curious about what goes into the design and construction of buildings, this book tells you how architects think.

Can we 3D-print a house? Can we live on the moon? Filled with gorgeous imagery and witty insight, this book is an essential and delightful guide to the future being built around us—a future that matters more, and to more of us, than ever.

... Employment Architects held about 132,000 jobs in 2006. Approximately 7 out of 10 jobs were in the architectural , engineering , and relat- ed services industry - mostly in architectural firms with fewer than five workers . A small ...

... architecture training also qualify for jobs closely related to landscape architecture , and may , after gaining some experience , become construction supervisors , land or environmental planners , or landscape consultants . Employment ...

... Architects may be under great stress , working nights and weekends to meet deadlines . Employment Architects held almost 108,000 jobs in 1990. Most jobs were in archi- tecture firms - the majority of which employ fewer than five workers ...

... architecture firms have outsourced the drafting of construction documents and basic design for large-scale ... jobs can be anticipated. Competition will be especially keen for jobs at the most prestigious architectural firms as ...