Architects Share Their Advice for Success

A pocket guide to creative survival presents more than sixty pieces of advice from architects around the world—offering insight on beginnings, inspiration, process, values, personal growth, and determination. How do you design what you believe in? Learn from other disciplines?

From designing what you believe in to learning how to say no, contributors share practical, personal, and often unexpected perspectives on building a life in architecture. Ideas touch on collaboration, cross-disciplinary thinking, serving communities, and adapting to technologies like AI.

Featured voices include Elizabeth Diller, Thom Mayne, Jeanne Gang, Winka H. Dubbeldam, Yung Ho Chang, and Gregg Pasquarelli—alongside a new generation shaping the field.

Designed with clean typography, black-and-white photographs, sketches and line drawings, this book is perfect for students, recent graduates, and advancing professionals, and anyone looking for inspiration navigating the creative process.

Designed by Paul Wagner

Published by Chronicle Books, 2025

ISBN: 978-1-79-722998-0