The Portfolio: An Architectural Student’s Handbook
By addebook • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Architecture •
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The Portfolio: An Architectural Student’s Handbook (Architectural Students Handbooks)
The Portfolio: An Architectural Student’s Handbook (Architectural Students Handbooks)
By Katerina Ruedi Ray, Lesley Lokko, Igor Marjanovic
Publisher: Architectural Press
Number Of Pages: 148
Publication Date: 2003-06-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0750657642
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750657648
Binding: Paperback
The portfolio is the single most important part of every architectural student’s education. This book proides a complete guide to preparing, compiling and presenting this crucial element of the architecture course.
The experienced author team gives practical advice for the creation of the portfolio covering issues of size, storage, layout and order. They go on to guide the student through the various forms a portfolio can take: the Electronic Portfolio, the Academic Portfolio and the Professional Portfolio suggesting different approaches and different media to use in order to create the strongest portfolio possible. The team also presents the best examples from international student portfolios to show the reader their recommendations in practice.
The book has a companion website where full colour representations of the best examples of portfolio work can be accessed.
Also in the Seriously Useful Guides series:
* The Dissertation
* The Crit
* Practical Experience
* Offers step-by-step advice for students on how to prepare and present their portfolios
* Advice from the experts on how to make portfolios the best they can be
* Fully illustrated with examples of the best students’ work from around the world
Summary: Not a step-by-step guide
Rating: 5
If you want to be inspired and gain a new prespective on how to design an architectural portfolio, this is an excellent book.
Not the step-by-step guide, or a list of creative ideas, it allows for creativity along with both basic and detailed pointers on layout, overall design, content and award-recipent portfolio examples. Direct references to certain colleges in both Europe and the USA.
Something not in the description that was a very pleasent surprise: The authors compare UK schools and USA schools, their application process and how the portfolios differ. A very useful thing for a student, such as myself, planning on applying to both European and USA architecture grad. schools.
Summary: Disappointing!
Rating: 2
I was very excited at first when I bought this book. It’s full of nice illustrations and examples, but I was very disappointed when I finished reading it. It’s very general with no structural orientation. It does not serve as a guide on how to design and develop your portfolio and just mentions general common knowledge which, as an architecture student or professional, you can learn throughout college and work.
I would not recommend it for those who want to create a portfolio with strong impact.
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