tips for portfolio (architecture)

SmileyPaul

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architecture in DIT has been my first choice in my leaving for about 5 years now and have begun on my portfolio, I realise they prefer more of the design to feature in a port folio but does anyone have suggestions?
the number of works, the kind and photo's?

so far Im going to have in a sketch of a section of georges street arcade, a sketch of a doorway from harcourt street, 2 designs I have come up for for buildings, maybe an exploded elavation of a block of offices, I've had help from one of my older brothers friends but it turns out he went to UCD and never made a portfolio for his leaving cert, please help

-Blanco-

There are afew threads about this already if you search the forum...
The advice given to me was that you should have about 10 good pieces, quality over quantity. I had nothing architectural really... mainly sketches and paintings but that was just what I had done at the time. I had one tech drawing sheet. The section and sketch sound like you're on the right track. There are afew people in my class that got good marks for the portfolio/interview that had archtectural
photographs only as their portfolio. All I'd say to you is not to be afraid to include non architectural pieces!! Also a good idea to start reading up on architecture for the interview itself if you havn't been doing already. Hope that helps

SmileyPaul

yeah it really does
one of my older brothers friends gave me a couple of books to do with architecture and sketching so Im scanning through them when I get a chance
thanks again