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Pick the one that sounds most like you right now. You can always come back for the others.
Still studying → Design process, presentation help, the essentials nobody quite explains properly in the studio.
Working on a live project → Technical guides, construction details, and the Detail Library for when you need it right.
Just here to browse and learn → Our most popular articles, and a good starting point if you’re not sure yet.
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For when the studio brief makes no sense yet.
Learn the Essentials
Some good places to start:
Architecture Student Essentials –– everything we wish someone had handed us in first year.
Architectural Design Process –– a clear walk-through of how a project actually comes together, from brief to concept.
Architecture and the Environment –– sustainability basics, explained without the jargon.
We add new posts every week, and yes, we go back and fix the old ones too. Even the ones from 2018 with slightly questionable formatting.
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Technical, without the headache.
Master the Technical Side
Technical Guides U-values, stairs, slopes and gradients, scale drawings. The reference posts you’ll come back to more than once.
Construction Detailing Books Written to save you from redrawing the same junction for the third time. Covers residential, Passivhaus, and more, all with 2D and 3D drawings included.
House Extension Details If extensions are your bread and butter, this one’s built for you. Real detailing for real residential projects.
Detail Library Hundreds of downloadable construction details in CAD, Revit, and SketchUp, ready to drop into your own drawings. Built to save you time, not to replace your thinking.
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For the boards, the blocks and the bits in between…
Tools and Resources
Architecture Resources Our recommendations for the software, courses, and other resources worth knowing about.
Scale Converter Tools Because nobody has scale conversions memorised, and that’s fine.
Ramp Calculator Toolkit Designed to help architects, designers, accessibility consultants, and anyone working with ramps comply with Part M of UK Building Regulations.
CAD Blocks Metric and imperial, and always growing. Can’t find what you need? Let us know and we’ll see what we can do.
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