edit, edit, edit.

terrible layout: too busy, images are too small, colours too aggressive, text boxes within text?

cut the length in half and focus on a few images per project, not everything you've ever outputted.

Hi non sequitur,

Thanks for taking a look. I've seen your comments in lots of threads now and they're usually troll-worthy (for the lack of a better word?) So for clarity, is this your 100% serious take on this. Im sorry i honestly dont know how else to phrase this nicely. 

I understand your point about color, but I wanted to give an accurate and honest representation of my work and graphically i DO use a lot of color. Although for this portfolio I did try to streamline and bring them together. Apart from the first project, I've displayed 20-40 percent of each project to give weight to individual graphics. 

And lastly, 'text boxes withing text' >>> what?

I agree with NS.

It is information overload.

NS has given you an honest appraisal. You should take the advice.

Alright guys, thanks for the input

While I appreciate your portfolio coming from a graphic designer's perspective, it may not go hand in hand with architecture. Both disciplines at extremes simply don't mix.

I also understand your use of colors with the thesis, thereby establishing a precedence for the other projects to follow. If you must insist on using non-pastel colors, refer to how Alex Hogrefe does it in his blog.

As for the output you have, you could try creating a standard grid layout for all pages to follow, that way there's some semblance of coherence for the user's eyes to follow through. Not only is it jarring right now, my eyes struggle to run all over the place to gather data. (Text justifications and paragraphing would help too)

Again, this doesn't fall to your inabilities as a designer but rather the wrong approach. Hope this helps ;)

This recent portfolio was a good example with some color, organized and well laid out

http://archinect.com/forum/thread/149977798/portfolio-critique-needed

I agree with NS. Sorry.

Agree on the overload, it just makes the projects more difficult to comprehend,especially the first one, make them more easy to understand please, it hurts my eyes

on a side note i really liked ur hospital project

Critique duly noted everybody, thank you so much for your advice!

I actually think it shows more potential than most of the posts here. It would help to let us know what schools you are interested in applying to. The content is nice, but you definitely need a lot more white space. Schools look more at how you curate your work rather than including every single drawing for each project. Blow up some of your more impressive drawings and images to take up a whole page by itself. I would say you need to kick out at least 50% of all of your content for each project. If you showed a nice section in one project you can show a nice render in the next one instead of showing an equal amount of sections, plans, renders, diagrams for each project. Also, yes, push the 'scrambled eggs' portion to the end.

Here are some examples of nice portfolios that I just found on issuu, although they are a bit long for m.arch applications:

https://issuu.com/sogkarimi/docs/ali_karimi_portfolio2

https://issuu.com/karamichellemoore/docs/151012_moorekara_portfolio_web-comp

also this is a very helpful book on making your portfolio, it discusses layout, printing, binding, graphics, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-Architects-Manual-Communication/dp/0415522617