01An architect's portfolio website that looks like your studio
People visiting an architect's website judge the design before they read a word: layout, proportions, use of white space and typography already say a lot about how you work. A generic template, identical to a hundred other studios, communicates the opposite of what you sell.
That is why we start from your references: drawings, materials, the way you present projects to clients. For Claudia Loperto's studio in Naples, the site opens with a full-screen video and an ENTER button, in different versions for computer and phone, and the pages are laid out like drawing boards.
02Project pages with renders, plans, videos and key facts
Every project deserves its own page, not just a photo in a grid. The page holds renders and photos of the finished work, plans and sections, any videos, and the facts people looking for an architect want straight away: type, year, place, floor area or client, if you can name them.
Projects can be filtered by type, for example residential, commercial or exhibition design, so a prospective client finds work similar to theirs in seconds. One page per project also helps Google, which can show it to people searching for exactly that kind of job.
03Showing your method, not just the final photos
A photo of the finished living room does not tell the work behind it. Sketches, massing studies, material choices, the before and after of a renovation: these are the steps that show a client how you think and why they should trust you.
We can give the process room with dedicated sections or animated elements. On Claudia Loperto's site, for example, a ground-floor plan draws itself in front of the visitor, and there are separate sections for Projects, Archive, Plans and Video.
04Fast even with heavy images and videos
An architecture portfolio is made of large files, and that is where many sites become slow, especially on a phone. Each image is resized into several formats and loaded only when needed; videos play in a compressed version suited to the viewer's screen.
You keep the image quality without making people wait when they open the site on the underground or on a building site. Speed also matters to Google, which counts it among the signals for ranking results.
05Publish new projects from a custom CMS
A studio produces work all the time, and the site should not stay frozen in its launch year. With a CMS built around your project pages you add renders, plans and videos yourself, filling in ready-made fields instead of laying everything out from scratch.
That is what Claudia Loperto does today: she uploads projects, plans and videos, builds new pages from ready-made sections and the site updates as soon as she publishes. We delivered a user manual with the site, and domain, hosting and logins stay in the studio's name.
06Getting found locally and receiving well-qualified enquiries
Many clients look for a professional nearby: «renovation architect» or «interior designer» followed by a city or neighbourhood. We take care of local SEO with pages for the services you offer, a Google Business Profile consistent with the site and structured data describing the studio, address and fields of work.
The contact form can already ask for what you need to assess a job: type of work, approximate floor area, city, timing. You get fewer vague messages and more contacts worth a first meeting.
