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Free architecture portfolio templates
Four ready to use files that get your portfolio off a blank page: editable layout templates, two cover sets and the checklist we score against. Drop your email and we send the whole pack.
- Editable in Photoshop and Illustrator, not locked PDFs
- Built for students, graduates and job applicants
- Free forever, no card and no trial to cancel
Scored against the same rubric as every paid review
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By the numbers
What the rubric has already seen
- 15,000+ Portfolios Reviewed
- 11+ Avg. Score Lift
- 3 min Avg. Review Time
- 40+ Hiring Partners on Rubric Panel
What you get
Everything in the free pack
Four downloads and one free review. All yours in exchange for an email.
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Portfolio layout templates
Photoshop
Full spread layouts with a locked grid, so margins and gutters stay consistent from page one to the last.
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Front cover designs
3 designs
Three editable Illustrator covers. Swap your name, school and project title and the cover is done.
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Portfolio Covers 2.0
Second set
A newer cover set in a different register, for when the first three do not fit the work behind them.
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All in one portfolio checklist
PDF
The pass over your file before you submit it: layout, curation, drawings, typography and presentation.
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One free portfolio review
Full rubric
Upload the finished file and get a score with the criterion breakdown and page cited comments.
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Portfolio tips email
Optional
One short email: a fix worth making, a portfolio worth studying and what reviewers flagged that week.
How it works
From email to a finished spread
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Drop your email
Every file in the pack lands in your inbox straight away.
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Open and edit
Drop your projects into the grid, pick a cover, work down the checklist.
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Score it before you send it
Upload the finished portfolio for a free review and fix what the rubric flags.
Why these
Drawn from what reviewers actually mark down
The templates encode the fixes that come up most often in scored reviews.
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One grid, every page
Inconsistent margins are one of the most common layout flags. The grid is locked so the drift cannot start.
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Two typefaces, no more
Type is already paired and scaled, so hierarchy reads without you having to argue with it.
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Room for the work
Image frames are sized so a spread holds fewer, larger pieces instead of a crowded contact sheet.
Inside the checklist
The pass before you submit
Six sections you can work through in an evening.
- 01Curation: which projects earn a place and which are padding
- 02Layout: margins, gutters and a grid that holds across the file
- 03Drawings: line weights, scale cues and legible annotation
- 04Typography: pairing, sizing and the hierarchy reviewers scan
- 05Cover and opening spread: the first three seconds
- 06Export: file size, resolution and naming for a submission portal
- 15,000+ portfolios scored against the same rubric
- Most reviews complete in about three minutes
- Rubric reviewed by a panel of practitioners and educators
- Student, graduate, mid level and senior calibration
Works With Your Favorite Design Tools
Analyze portfolios created with all major architecture and design software
Questions
Good to know
What exactly does PortfolioMentor evaluate?
Each portfolio is scored against a ten-criterion rubric calibrated to architecture hiring partners and admissions readers: concept and narrative, graphic identity, technical drawing, diagramming, rendering, typography and layout, project selection, process, career positioning, and production quality. The rubric is reviewed annually by a panel of senior practitioners and educators.
How accurate is the AI score?
Internally we benchmark each scoring engine release against a held-out set of 5,000 portfolios that have already received human reviews from the senior practitioners on our advisory board. Our current model agrees with the human consensus score within +/- 5 points on 92% of portfolios. We are transparent about the remaining 8 percent. If you disagree with a score, you can request a manual rerun for free.
How long does a review take?
Most reviews complete in about 3 minutes for files under 100 MB. Files at the 200 MB ceiling can take up to four minutes during peak demand (typically Monday mornings and the weeks before major application deadlines). You will see a live progress bar with the criterion currently being evaluated.
Is my portfolio data secure?
Yes. Files are encrypted in transit using TLS 1.3 with strong cipher suites (AEAD only) and at rest using AES-256-GCM with keys managed in a hardware security module. Only you can access your portfolios from your account dashboard. They are not visible to other users, and our staff cannot view them without an audit-logged support request from you.
Will my portfolio be used to train AI models?
No, not without your explicit and separate consent. Your default privacy setting is "do not use my work to train any model." If you opt in via a granular consent flow, you can opt out again at any time and we will exclude your portfolio from any future training run.
How long do you keep my files?
Uploaded portfolios are automatically deleted from primary storage thirty days after the review is complete unless you choose to retain them in your dashboard. Deleted files are unrecoverable after fourteen further days, when our backup rotation purges them as well.
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