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

Architecture school teaches students how to draw, design, make models, develop concepts and present projects, but there is another education happening at the same time, one that can influence a young architect far more deeply than learning how to design a building. It is the experience of being judged. You stand in front of professors, tutors or a jury with something you have created, and suddenly sentences begin arriving from every direction. Your project is too complicated.