Architecture Portfolio that got me into BIG and OMA

Due to popular request, I'm showcasing my portfolio that got me into international internships at offices such as OMA and BIG. I'll be explaining what I think made this a successful architecture portfolio, focusing on presentation and layout techniques you can use for your own work.

The portfolio is an edited collection of one's best work intended to showcase one's style or method of work. A portfolio is used to show employers their versatility by showing different samples of current work. Typically, the work reflects an artist's best work or a depth in one specific area of work, namely architecture.

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[blasianmcbob]

gaddamn this really sets the bar, no surprise it got you to BIG and OMA

[revolvency]

this is one of the portfolio on youtube that's actually looks neat, clean, and

[Rhinoch]

The coolest things to observe from this portfolio is not the format or the way content is presented - rather, it is the subliminal and subtextual symbols that you convey. By carefully choosing what you want to show, you are crafting a story about yourself.

The pioneers, the alpinist scaling a mountain blizzard, the sense of warmth and comunity around the fire, the mindful zen monk, all at the top of the peaks, in the wind and snow.... Those are some strong emotions you are conveying. It is a bold and beautiful story you are telling about yourself and how you conduct yourself in this world. Beautiful!

[nathalyruvalcaba]

Wow! I love that he clarified that most of those projects were his own competition entries! In my undergrad, I never once touched a project that was super fascinating or cool! *slowly cries, while updating portfolio*.

[JDazell]

This is the best portfolio I've seen. The rhythm between the pages are great and it really keeps you curious to explore each project. You even made the contents page interesting. Great job

[leenigen]

Your drawings are amazing. I think that when your drawings and renderings are exceptional there is less of a need for physical models because they do not look as similar to the actual project as a rendering and with today's computational software, we can practically simulate every aspect of the site and model even more accurately than the model

[donzawi]

However,

1. The portfolio is closer to academic work (which includes concepts & imaginary projects), what if you have more work experience and you have done more professional work in existing projects, in other words you were part of a project team, having duties in the studio delivering detail packages and on site project managing site works
2. nowadays everything is viewed on screens, P-folios are rarely printed in hardcopies, the question is what is the ultimate digital page size (if you have 20 pages to fit them within the 5-7mb file requested by almost all studios)

[aman_iad]

This is amazing! Can you probably do a tutorial on how you achieve those "cover page" renderings which you got at the start of each project. Maybe some tips and tricks to photoshop such renderings would be perfect for us!

[trippij]

Wow, this is an incredible and very inspiring portfolio. Definitely goals for me as a first year in architecture 🙌

[archzay]

Very inspertation work Bennett, I am currently in Division 8. I find your work extraordinary, while also being very clear to understand. Keep up the good work, you my guy are a pioneer.

[kaycheng]

What I found from your sharing is combining liberal arts to the real practice of work will definite decides the success of outcome.

[alexibrown-schmidt]

The software we have now is amazing but I bet Rem would be more impressed if you could hand draw orthogonally like he did in Delirious NY in the late 70s, esp. with the hatches he created

[winterwolf]

I'm going to be building up my portfolio for the next few years. I hadn't been able to save much of my school projects so it looks like I'll busy making it look presentable.

[diegoquintana]

I went to Uhill aswell, nice to see people from there do good in architecture

[roseansari]

Watching your portfolio and the review of that was such a useful experience. It would be great to see more reviews on your channel. Thanks from Iran

[SuperNat]

finally. I've been waiting for this

[akshayathiagarajan]

God, this inspired me a thanks for sharing and please make more video!!
Have a Nice Day!

[architectio]

Thanks a lot for sharing! Ill use ur portfolio as an example, but in my own style. Please keep it up!

[MotionFORM]

Sounds nice. Not going to BIG, but I enjoyed Architectural Association and classes at Zaha's offices. Zaha and Bjarke both worked with OMA. It seems that since those are only 2 firms in a small demographic of expertise based firms. If people have your skill set, it would be useful. If people have other skills, or opportunities, they should aim for low hanging fruit. Even at BIG or Zaha or OMA, the next question is how long you want to be there and where do you want to go with your career. These questions will take you where you want to go before the effort to enter 1 firm. It's nice, but unless you will be partner, these firms are crowded at the top. The firms that will be leaders tomorrow are kind of small now.
Nice work regardless, and I hope BIG and OMA get lots of cool portfolios(spoiler alert, they get tons) 👌👌

[kofiaboagye]

Gonna help me a lot... though in my first year💥👊