Architecture Website Design
An architecture practice is chosen on portfolio and on confidence that the process will be handled. Clients arrive knowing what they want to build but not what working with an architect involves — how long, how much, and who deals with planning. The practices that explain that plainly win work from better-known ones. Most domestic clients have never worked with an architect and quietly fear being locked into a long, expensive process. Offering a small, defined first stage converts far better than asking for the whole commission.
Built for architects, architectural designers and design practices. Describe your business in a sentence and a complete site is written and designed for you — then you edit every word of it.
Build my website free →What a architecture website needs
Every one of these is included from the first draft. Nothing here is decoration — each answers a question your visitors are already asking.
Projects with drawings as well as photographs
Plans and sections show how you think. Finished photographs alone show only the result.
Services and stages explained
Feasibility, planning, technical design, site. Clients do not know these divisions and worry about committing to all of them.
How you charge
Percentage, fixed fee or stage-by-stage. Saying which builds far more trust than saying nothing.
Planning experience in your area
Conservation areas, listed buildings, local authorities you have worked with. Highly searched and highly persuasive.
Project types you take on
Extensions, new builds, commercial. Clients want to know their job is normal for you.
Realistic timescales
How long feasibility, planning and construction typically take. It is the question every client has and few sites answer.
Three mistakes that cost architecture websites customers
These come up again and again in this trade, and all three are avoidable.
- A portfolio of renders with no built work, which experienced clients notice.
- No fee basis at all, in a profession where clients are anxious about open-ended cost.
- Never mentioning planning, which is the part clients are most afraid of.
- Images so large the portfolio crawls on a phone.
- Showing only large projects when most of your income is domestic extensions.
- No indication of typical project value, so enquiries arrive far below the size you can take on.
Six architecture designs to start from
Every industry ships with six distinct designs. Pick one as a starting point — the layout, colours, wording and images are all yours to change afterwards.
How you get your architecture website
Describe the business
One or two sentences about your architecture is enough. No brief, no questionnaire.
Get a complete first draft
Pages, sections, images and written copy — not an empty template waiting for you to fill it in.
Edit anything, then publish
Change any word, section or colour yourself. Publish to a free address or connect your own domain.
Architecture website questions
Should I publish fees?
The basis of your fees, at minimum. Clients fear open-ended cost more than they fear a high number.
Do drawings belong on the site?
Yes. Plans and sections demonstrate judgement in a way finished photographs cannot, and they distinguish you from a builder.
Is planning experience worth a page?
It is one of the strongest pages you can write, especially for conservation areas or listed buildings where clients search very specifically.
How many projects should I show?
Six to ten in depth, covering the range you want more of. Depth persuades; volume does not.
Should I show unbuilt work?
It is fine, provided it is labelled. Presenting renders as built work is the fastest way to lose a well-informed client.
Can I add projects myself?
Yes, directly — and a portfolio that visibly grows signals an active practice.
Should I explain planning permission?
Yes. It is the part clients understand least and fear most, and a plain explanation of what needs permission and what does not brings in enquiries no portfolio would.
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