Architecture School Admission Portfolio: Show the Architect Who Does Not Exist Yet: One of the biggest misunderstandings I encounter when working with students applying to architecture school is the belief that their portfolio should make them look as though they are already architects. Students begin searching for architectural drawings, trying to produce complicated buildings, learning software, creating renders and imitating the visual language of architecture students. I

Architecture Portfolio for Master’s Applicants: Showing the Architect You Are Becoming: An architecture portfolio for a Master’s application should not simply be an improved version of your undergraduate portfolio. By the time you apply for postgraduate architecture studies, the question is no longer only whether you can design a building, produce drawings, make models, or create convincing images. Your previous education already provides evidence that you have studied archit

An architect can design a building, organize space, compose a façade and transform materials into form. A spiritual architect searches for something beyond all of these things. The spiritual architect asks what architecture can awaken in a human being. What can a space make us feel about ourselves, about nature, about other people and about our place within something larger than ourselves? Can architecture create silence without demanding silence? Can it make us suddenly awar

Architecture does not begin with a building. Design does not begin with a shape. Long before there is a floor plan, façade, material palette or beautifully rendered image, there is something much more fragile and much more important: an idea searching for its own language. Creative research for architects and designers is the process of discovering that language. It is a way of moving beyond the collection of information and entering a deeper investigation into meaning, emoti