Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
Pratt Institute
University of Southern California (USC)
Tulane University
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Temple University
University of Oregon
Cranbrook Academy of Art
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
Kansas State University
Portfolio for M.Arch
Hey guys! I'm applying for my M.Arch and I'd really appreciate it if someone can review my portfolio and give me some pointers!
link: https://issuu.com/akshitsethi6...
PS: I will replace my professional work as I have a couple more completed projects now. Made this portfolio last year.
I am at a loss to say anything about the first project without being extremely critical.
I am not going to look at the rest of your portfolio.
where are you applying? Your history shies previous top Canadian school ambitions.
Folio suffers the same fate as nearly every other posted here. Thin projects with little progress or exploratory work. Just a collection of minimum reqs and no real demonstration of critical design thinking. What else do you have to add in addition to a few studio renderings and cliché massing studies?
Thanks for taking out the time to review my portfolio. Yes, I will be applying to schools in Canada. I have branched out and looked at a couple more schools in Australia too.
I have a lot more things to add from my write-up that I didn't add in my first project i.e a couple of examples of institutions in India that don't treat mental illness the way it should and certain case studies.
No one is going to read that kind of project filler. Sure, it might be pertinent for your studio assignment, but it does not help with your portfolio. You need to show your creative problem solving chops and design skills. You need to show how you interpret a problem and solve it using geometry and scale. You need to show your thought process and iterations of ideas... not just a collection of b/w tech drawings and bland renderings. Are students these days not taught this?
I understand your point. I have a couple of sketches I made during the semester while exploring the de sign. I will incorporate those to get a better understanding of why I chose to go ahead with this iteration. Thank you for your feedback. Appreciate it!
Hi, hope you don' take the above comments to heart. For portfolios, I'm interested in seeing how you embed your design imprint into your projects. I would like to see the intellectual rigour of your projects - you have done up clean, massing diagrams. But I believe you can expound further on the process prior to arriving at them (i.e. what did you read of the site in terms of its stakeholders, environmental response, etc.). May I also ask where are you applying for your M.Arch?
Cheers.
Thank you for the feedback, I will look into this further and will try to bring out my narrative more in the first 2 projects.
I am applying to a couple of schools in Canada and Australia, Ryerson, Carleton, Calgary (canada) and RMIT, Curtin, UTS (australia)
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