How an Architect can Make a Professional Portfolio

No architect should underestimate the significance of an excellent professional portfolio, especially those making struggles in their careers or for independent architects who are at initial stages and making attempts to be in this field. Going for a job interview without a portfolio is like rushing for a grocery shop without the inventory. So be thankful for your showcase, i.e. your portfolio, that can differentiate yourself from others in a competition. But what does the portfolio showcase? It showcases the type of products or services you want to sell.

How to Make a Perfect Professional Portfolio?

Making a perfect professional portfolio demands some struggles, time, and energy. You have to put them all in and keep in mind the rules and regulations given below. However, if you’ll follow these tips or pieces of advice to make your architectural portfolio, you’ll be able to make a difference in this field.

Try to follow all these considerations to attract the attention of your potential customers and employers:

1. Make a perfect and impressive cover page to cast a good first impression.
2. Designing a compelling CV will provide the viewers with all the details about you.
3. Create a narrative – beautiful illustrations, extraordinary design experience, and proof of software skills.
4. Try to make an efficient portfolio to mesmerize your potential customers and employers. You can create an online portfolio or in PDF form. You can make a productive portfolio by;
5. Avoiding A3-format that is very ineffective to handle
6. If you want a portfolio in the form of a PDF, don’t make it above 15 MB. (Ideal as compared to an online portfolio, as online portfolio demands Internet access, that sometimes may case issue)
7. Never make a portfolio in the form of a scrapbook that needed be unfolded to see the hidden content
8. Design it on the rule of thirds – academic work, professional work, and personal work
9. Add some hand-drawing of your projects to the portfolio.
10. Never forget to add Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) to the portfolio, as it serves a diversity of goals in a professional architecture portfolio through architectural visualization. The CGI will also help if you want to render different services like commercial building rendering.
11. To show your collaborative spirit, you may add team projects into your portfolio.
12. Never overlook the image to text ratio, i.e., put your pictures with descriptions having short and brief stories and taglines.
13. Focus on keeping less content with more pages.
14. Add technical drawings smartly; don’t try to fit them all.
15. Never compromise on fonts and grammar as a misspelt text appears unprofessional, choose from 2 to 3 fonts, never use Comis Sans font style, and adjust font size properly, i.e. ensure that your typography is on point.
16. Don’t be afraid of blank space, as an overloaded portfolio doesn’t seem reasonable.
17. Be concise and to the point.
18. Never exaggerate anything in your portfolio, and always mention the truth; fake things can prove to be fatal in the future.
19. Constantly adapt and update your portfolio every 4-6 months.

Verdict

No doubt, it will be a bit troublesome and hectic task, but if you create a portfolio, it will act as a template, then you only need to change or add some new things into it to make it according to your demand. Good luck with making one for you!

Harper Harrison

Harper Harrison is a reporter for The Hear UP. Harper got an internship at the NPR and worked as a reporter and producer. harper has also worked as a reporter for the Medium. Harper covers health and science for The Hear UP.