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- The Admissions Committee requires a comprehensive and well-organized portfolio, demonstrating evidence of skills development and design ability from undergraduate design programs and any other relevant studies, professional work and/or experience. The portfolio should show complete designs as well as creative design processes, including conceptual development, design experimentation, creative and critical thinking, comprehensive design development, technical resolutions, and representations of poetic/experiential qualities
- Aims – The portfolio should demonstrate the following:
- Ability to document, interpret, and respond to complex urban sites and cultural contexts
- Ability to develop clear and relevant design strategies, architectural intentions and ideas
- Ability to imagine, plan and design new and renovated spaces, buildings, works and sites
- Ability to effectively communicate in drawing, graphic, model, and verbal form, and in manners appropriate to an aspiring design professional
- Ability to think and design materially (quantitatively and qualitatively)
- Ability to think and design conceptually (formally and theoretically)
- Ability to perform research and explorations leading to appropriate design responses
- Understanding of architecture within the context of current global and regional issues
- Content – The portfolio should include the following:
- The best work from each project completed in previous design studies
- Select research and explorations for each project, including analysis and design development
- Documentation of design work in chronological sequence (including select preliminary sketches and material experiments, as well as final drawings, renderings, models and/or construction photos, showing technical proficiency and experiential potential
- Applicable personal work and/or professional work.
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