oops including the link would be helpful...

http://issuu.com/akp77/docs/portfolio_2

I would rewrite your 'contrappostos' section.

For starters, it is just 'contrapposto.' I think the plural might be 'contrapposti.' But I'm pretty sure it is a verb.

Contraposto goes all the way back to the 4th century BCE. Technically, it goes back to the 2nd millennium BCE if you take the stoic one-foot-out-in-front Egyptian statues as "off-axis."

While I agree with the last past about form and motion, contrapposto is not about balance. Frequently, Roman marble statues were soo off-balance and fragile that many of the statues had to be adorned with various stumps, pedestals and other bits to give the statue something to lean on otherwise they would break off at the ankles.

In Grecian statuary, most objects were made of cast bronze and did not suffer from the issues Roman marble copies had. In fact, Grecian statues were even more widely asymmetric and unbalanced than one could ever match with stone.

I would consider contrapposto to be "twisting' axis but rather just "off-axis."

Don't devote an entire page to "finito". In fact, don't say it at all. Ever seen parodies of Indie films that end with "fin" - reviewers don't need you to tell them the presentation is over.

also, someone posted on another thread not to include photography unless you were publicly recognized for your work - and i agree, especially if you only have a few photos to present.

the interpretation of Dali's work... maybe not the best idea. It shows that you have talent, it's a nice representation, but committees want to see that you can think creatively like an architect. That being said, representation is important and it's a good painting - so all in all i'm torn about it.

Ultimately, my first bit of advice is the one i'm most adamant about - which is good because it's an easy fix. I imagine you were a fine-arts major? My other suggestions won't be as important if you don't have an architectural background.

I like your first project though, really interesting. and Contrapposto(s) is beautiful.

Good luck!

I agree with arc.effect that a section dedicated to photography is not the best thing to include, unless, of course, it has been awarded or recognized as something special. I would also say that whole sections dedicated to your skills or abilities, as opposed to specific projects, is not that attractive either. And what is strange is that you organized your portfolio using both methods, by-project AND by-skill. You should just continue to use the by-project organization and continue to dissect your art projects, similar to your presentation of the gray-scale painting.

Back to the photography...
I do like your photographs and I do think you should throw a few of them into the portfolio, but do it in a more clever way without having to dedicate an entire section to them. Use them as backdrops for something or dedicate two pages to the dissection of your best photograph.

And I think Uxbridge is over-thinking your Contrapposto description. Make sure the plural usage of it is spelled correctly, but otherwise, your text is fine.

"over-thinking your Contrapposto description"

Uh, no. Contrapposto is Art School 101.

You admission panel is probably not composed of it idiots and this is something so trivial in general that it is hard to look past it.

I mean... really hard. No one on an admission panel needs a half-wrong definition, a completely wrong history or a misspelled word.

Well then, its a good thing you gave akp77 that manifesto on the archeological history of contrapposto, because he probably wouldn't have gotten into to architecture school with that blatantly incorrect description of an ART term.

All I can say to akp77 is, priorities.

The title page is a bit corny, for lack of a better word. I remember doing those grid things in 7th grade geometry. So I would probably leave that out.

Thanks for the tips everyone. Actually, I had no fine arts background, I was a psychobiology major and took one sculpting class and a 2d design class. The contrapposto section was thrown together very haphazardly and I probably will take out that description altogether.

I was torn about putting in that interpretation of dahli's work too. That was one of the first paintings I did when I was learning to paint and I thought it showed good skill, even without any real ideas in it.

So should I take out technical skill drawings out altogether or just clump them into one section? I thought it would be important to showcase that. I was torn about it because all of the schools say to include things like sculpting and photography.

Thanks for tips on the photography section.

Any thoughts on the room remodel section? I included some photos of the process I went through while painting. They are pretty low res, but they show process.

A knowledge of art isn't important in Architecture School?!

That's awesome!