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

If you are in high school and find yourself constantly looking at buildings, sketching strange spaces, noticing how light enters a room, wondering why cities feel the way they do or imagining how places could be different, you may already be standing at the beginning of architecture. Becoming an architect does not start on the first day of university. It begins much earlier, when you start developing a certain way of seeing the world. Architecture is a profession, but before