Digital portfolio requirements for applications to MArch

Postgraduate student work on the MArch course

Please upload with your application a carefully designed digital ‘A3’ landscape portfolio, reduced size multi-page pdf single document format with:

  • A cover with the candidate’s name and qualification(s)
  • Paginated contents page
  • Copies of your first degree certificate(s) and transcripts from all years showing qualification(s) and assessment results
  • Copies of two academic and/or professional letters of reference
  • Illustrated Curriculum Vitae - one A3 landscape page
  • Personal statement - 500 word max illustrated describing candidate’s architectural ambitions, what kind of office/architectural activity they would like to eventually undertake, what kind of buildings they would like to design, their favourite architects and/or buildings past and present and what they like about them. One A3 landscape page.

Final Year Project(s) showing the same information for each project if more than one:

  • Introduction and brief - give the name and number of the module/unit, the title of the project, the location of the site and describe or show a copy of the brief. Add some further explanations of what it was about if wished. Include an image of the finished design (one page only)
  • Site location map, site analysis and context (one page only)
  • Precedent studies/design research (one page only)
  • Conceptual/feasibility studies - developmental drawings and models (one page only).
  • Final proposed plans - the ground floor must be in context, site plans should also be included (one or two or three pages)
  • Final proposed sections and elevations - drawings must include context (one or two pages)
  • Detailed design - if the project included constructional/ structural/ environmental studies please include a summary (one page only)
  • 3D drawings/perspectives - hand drawn or digital models or a combination of both. If more than image is included, ensure the primary image is larger (one page only)
  • Photographs of model work - we are interested in real physical models, not just digital ones. If more than image is included, ensure the primary image is larger (one page only).

Office and/or independent competition experience:

  • Show typical examples of projects worked on and include a commentary explaining the extent of involvement. Show a small selection of the work produced (one or two pages).

Skills:

  • Include examples of other relevant skills, not necessarily architectural (one or two pages).

Dissertation:

  • Reproduce dissertation with two sides on each A3 landscape page (as many pages as needed).