Seriously useful guides The Portfolio An Architecture StudentÕs Handbook Igor Marjanovic«, Katerina RŸedi Ray and Lesley Naa Norle Lokko Architectural Press AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG LONDON NEW YORK OXFORD PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYO Architectural Press An imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803 First published 2003 Copyright © 2003, Elsevier Science Ltd. 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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 0 7506 57642 For information on all Architectural Press publications visit our website at www.architecturalpress.com Typeset, printed and bound in Great Britain Contents About the authors v Acknowledgements vii List of Illustrations ix 1 Introduction 1 Why Make a Portfolio? 1 The Handbook 2 2 Getting Started 5 What is a Portfolio? 5 Portfolio Destinations 18 How To Get There 28 3 Design Cultures 32 Cultural Capital 32 Academic Markets 34 Professional Markets Ð How Do You Know This is The Place for You? 38 International Cultures 41 4 Academic Portfolio 57 The Portfolio in the Academy 57 The Academic Narrative 61 The Academic CV, References and Statement of Intent 65 iv Contents 5 Professional Portfolio 70 The Portfolio in the Workplace 70 The Professional Narrative 70 The Professional Resume, References and Cover Letter 75 Documenting Built Work 78 Construction Drawings 80 6 Preparing the Portfolio of Work 82 Selecting, Recording and Storing Your Work 82 Scanning, Reducing and Reproducing Your Work 86 7 The Folio Container 91 Buying a Portfolio Container 91 Making a Portfolio Container 97 8 Making the Traditional Portfolio 102 Graphic Design 102 Assembling the Portfolio 111 9 Making the Digital Portfolio 113 Digital vs. ÔTraditionalÕ Portfolio 113 CD Rom 118 Acrobat Reader and PDF Files 122 Web-based Portfolios 123 10 Afterwards 127 Ways of Sending Your Work 127 About the portfolio contributors 129 Index 133 About the Authors Igor Marjanovic« is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture and Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has practiced and exhibited widely, including Europe, South and North America. IgorÕs design awards include those from the Chicago Architectural Club, the Art Institute of Chicago, Universities UK, and the International Union of Architects (UIA). His research focuses on travel, hybridity, and the appropriation of montage practices in architectural design. He is working on a book which explores the relationship between architectural and cinematic montage. With Katerina RŸedi Ray he is one of ten selected exhibitors in the forthcoming architectural exhibition Chicago: Issues for a New Millennium at the Art Institute of Chicago. Igor studied architecture at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, the Moscow Architectural Institute, Russia, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He is currently undertaking research for his PhD by Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK. Katerina RŸedi Ray is the Director of the School of Art at Bowling Green State University. From 1996 to 2002 she was the Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London, UK and has a masters and a doctoral degree in architecture from University College London, UK. She has taught architectural design and theory at the Architectural Association, the Bartlett School and Kingston University, UK. She has won various European design awards and she has acted as a visiting professor, critic and lecturer at numerous European and north-American architecture and art vi About the Authors schools. Her publications include Desiring Practices: Architecture, Gender and the Interdisciplinary, Desiring Practices: Artists and ArchitectsandThe Dissertation: An Architecture StudentÕs Handboo.k She is currently working on several books, including Chicago is History, Bauhaus Dream-house: Identity Formation in Modernist Design Education, and 133 and Rising: African-American Women Architects. With Igor Marjanovic« she is one of ten selected exhibitors in the forthcoming architectural exhibition Chicago: Issues for a New Millennium at the Art Institute of Chicago. Lesley Naa Norle Lokkois Course Director of the MArch. programme in Cultural Identity, Globalization and Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK. Lesley studied architecture at the Bartlett, UCL where she also taught for two years before moving to the USA to teach at Iowa State University and at the University of Illinois at Chicago. On her return to the UK in 2000, she taught at Kingston University and was the Academic Leader at University of North London before re-joining the Bartlett in 2002. She is the author of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architectureand has published and lectured widely on the subject of race, cultural identity and diasporic cultures and how these inform architectural and spatial production. She is a founder member of ThirdSpace, an organization which aims to provide a forum for archi- tects and academics interested in issues of architecture and postcolo- nial/cultural studies. She has also just written her first novel (Sundowners, due for publication January 2004) and now divides her time between academia and fiction writing. Acknowledgements We wish to offer our sincere thanks to Dr Jonathan Hill for his assis- tance at various times in this project. We also wish to thank the various tutors and professors who have worked with the authors whose portfolios appear in the book, as well as, most importantly the authors themselves. In addition, we wish to thank Anthony Marty for his design and technical assistance relating to the web page accom- panying the book, and James McKay for technical assistance with the many digital glitches we encountered. We are also sincerely grateful to Alison Yates and Elizabeth Whiting, of Elsevier, for their consis- tently helpful advice. Finally, and most importantly, we wish to thank Jasna Marjanovic« and Roger Ray for their unfailing support in a myriad ways throughout all stages of this project. Igor Marjanovic« Katerina RŸedi Ray Lesley Naa Norle Lokko This Page Intentionally Left Blank List of illustrations Chapter 2 2.1 Christopher Ciraulo, Osaka International Design Competition 2.2 Christopher Ciraulo, Undergraduate work, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA 2.3 Jeffrey Morgan, Block 37: New Media Center, Chicago, IL, USA, Schiff Award, 2001 2.4 Jeffrey Morgan, Block 37: New Media Center, Chicago, IL, USA, Schiff Award, 2001 2.5 Anthony Max D. Marty, Undergraduate work, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA 2.6 Nicholas Smith and Katrin Klingenberg, Collage 2.7 RED (A. Ramirez and D. Stojanovic), Portfolio 2.8 Igor Marjanovic«, Kremlin Redesigned (together with Uros Vukovic« and Marija Milinkovic«), Moscow Architectural Institute, Russia 2.9 Igor Marjanovic«, Kremlin Redesigned (together with Uros Vukovic« and Marija Milinkovic«), Moscow Architectural Institute, Russia Chapter 3 3.1 Christopher Ciraulo, Light Pavilion 3.2 Zane Karpova, Shi-ga Museum, SOM Travelling Fellowship 2002, Schiff Award 2002 3.3 Zane Karpova, Shi-ga Museum, SOM Travelling Fellowship 2002, Schiff Award 2002 3.4 Ivan Subanovic«, Aristotelous Axis, Thessalonica, Greece, International Competition, second prize (together with Milan Maksimovic«, Karolina Damjanovic«, Zorica Petkovic«)