Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn about architecture?
Architecture is fascinating to me but I know next to nothing about it; I'd love to start learning from some quality online or print resources.
In addition, if anyone's studied architecture at university I'd love to hear about your studies as well as any apprenticeships you may have been apart of/your general experience starting a career in architecture out of school (I am a current college junior so the whole leaving-school-starting-a-career thing is something I think about a lot). Thanks!
I'm not sure your assumption is accurate. In part because people generally don't study architecture at university, have careers in architecture, and do apprenticeships when talking about software architecture (and there's hardware architecture too, though the same applies though perhaps slightly less so). But all these are common when talking about architecture in the built environment.
The other reason I'd question your assumption is I'm an architect of the type that designs buildings. Though I don't practice much these days, I still keep one active license and one inactive license just for giggles and because it's occasionally more convenient to say "I'm an architect" when asked "What do you do?" than to describe what I actually do because I'm not exactly sure what that is beyond it being just the things I do.
There is (or was) a sort of standard student cannon in the US that included Ching's Form, Space and Order and Alexander's A Pattern Language. Alexander's work of course overlaps with software architecture, so it's "arguably" relevant either way -- though it's not a very interesting argument to me and so not one I'd wish to have.
actually author asks about building architecture (he responded in another thread) but thanks for the book, I am always looking for good resources about CS
The O'Reilly book Fundamentals of Software Architecture [1] that came out this year is really broad and the best overview I've seen so far.
[1]: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-so...
The other reason I'd question your assumption is I'm an architect of the type that designs buildings. Though I don't practice much these days, I still keep one active license and one inactive license just for giggles and because it's occasionally more convenient to say "I'm an architect" when asked "What do you do?" than to describe what I actually do because I'm not exactly sure what that is beyond it being just the things I do.
There is (or was) a sort of standard student cannon in the US that included Ching's Form, Space and Order and Alexander's A Pattern Language. Alexander's work of course overlaps with software architecture, so it's "arguably" relevant either way -- though it's not a very interesting argument to me and so not one I'd wish to have.
This is a compilation of resources in that regards