First, be a student.

The attitude that you can just take a book and start designing buildings says you are, in no way, ready to design a 'feasible' building.

I have been at this for over 6 years and still question myself almost daily. I will probably continue to do so for years to come.

da fuk is 180 use?

You don't need no books to know how to design buildings. Just put a bunch of squishy swirls on a page and call it a day. The guys on site will figure out all the difficult details and you can take the rest of the week off and relax on your yacht.

shit man, who needs books?  

Here is an idea:  conceive an accurate feasible building and will it into existence.

Like reading some textbook on architecture is going to teach you all that...it is a lifelong pursuit bro...if you aren't in it for the long haul, jump ship.

Start with this, tell us when you've figured out this issue. Comes up in designing feasible buildings all the time.

I meant usd instead of use, the spellcheck changed it

Try Shaping Structures: Statics by Zalewski and Allen. You can absolutely get through it by yourself, and if you do, you'll know more about structures than most people who learned the subject in architecture school.

Thanks, anonitect!

180? Fuck books. Buy yourself a copy of Rhino 5.0 for students and start going through youtube tutorials. Model your house in as much detail as possible. Then the building across from you. And the one next door.

You'll thank me later.

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I've worked at a structural engineering office, and the S.E.s use this too

also learn to write programs to articulate this stuff - architects that can write code and perform engineering will be be more valuable than your average wall pusher(BIM wit).