This is a book that every student of architecture should keep in his or her backpack. It's also a book students may want to hide from their professors, for it explains many esoteric classroom subjects in a clear, simple, and often humorous way. 128 pages.

First published in 1985, Architect? A Candid Guide to the Profession quickly became known as the best basic guide to the architectural field. Within a decade, it was a standard text for introductory courses on architecture and recommended reading for aspiring architects applying to schools.

In Drawing for Architecture, architect Léon Krier makes an argument against what he sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of contemporary architecture. Through more than 200 provocative doodles, drawings, and ideograms he calls for a return to traditional architecture.