If you are a high school student dreaming about becoming an architect, you may imagine that preparing for architecture school means learning how to draw buildings, understanding floor plans, mastering architectural software or studying famous architects. These things can eventually become useful, but I believe there is something much more important you should develop before university. You should begin discovering how you see the world differently from everybody else. Archite

One of the most common questions I hear from students preparing to apply to architecture school is deceptively simple: What Should I Put in an Architecture Portfolio for University? Many students imagine that universities are searching for young people who already know how to design buildings, produce professional floor plans or create spectacular architectural renders. This misunderstanding often pushes applicants toward making their portfolios look more professional, more a

Architecture is one of the few creative disciplines in which something deeply personal is repeatedly placed in front of other people and openly discussed. You spend weeks developing an architectural concept, drawing, researching, making models, testing possibilities and slowly constructing a world that did not exist before. Then you pin it to a wall, open your portfolio, enter a jury or sit opposite a client, and suddenly other people begin telling you what they think. Some c

One of the biggest mistakes students make when creating an architecture portfolio is believing that the portfolio should prove how good their final work is. They carefully select their most polished drawings, strongest renders and cleanest models, arrange them beautifully across pages and remove almost everything that looks unfinished. Yet in doing this, they may accidentally remove the most interesting person from the portfolio: themselves. An architecture school does not on