This book is for students already invested in Structural Mechanics. They know about forces and moments, and couples from pairs of applied forces. They understand the concepts of equilibrium, compatibility and stiffness; of how beams and pin-jointed frameworks differ in their constituent behaviour; of the nature of supports; and of the concept of statical equivalency. I reflect the usual gradation in complexity and form, moving from bodies to bars, to cables, and to beams, and sometimes, mixing them up. I consider different metrics of structural design: of safe loading, of failure by plastic collapse and buckling, of cross-sectional limitations and joint design, for example. In particular, I focus on how to think about (and solve) ‘Structures’ problems better. Formulaic analysis methods are not overly represented because they can be applied without understanding fully how they work. Instead, I present a dialogue of how solving proceeds, collated as short chapters of worked examples – without the usual repetitive exercises at their ends. I apologise for my greyscale figures. I am a child of the hard-copy age where colour was taxed, limiting that part of my presentation still. I dispense with denoting vectors in boldface because the direction of quantity is always implied. Parameters that vary are italicised, but labels are roman and upright; ‘A’ can be a point in an area ‘A’. Greek letters typically denote fundamental quantities or dimensionless groups, but not always.