<p>So I am applying to many architecture schools and many of them do not want CAD drawings or any sort of that technical stuff at all. Should I still put in renders and floor plans of projects I did on Autodesk Revit for an architecture class I took? Or should I just stick entirely on my free-hand drawings?</p>
<p>BTW I am applying for Cornell Early Decision</p>
<p>Do not put your Revit drawings in the portfolio. Most professors can’t even use the program and therefore resent it. Good for you that you took the course, but give them what they want to see.</p>
<p>rick</p>
<p>Does that statement only apply to floorplans or are you referring to renders as well? BTW I also want to present my Google Sketchup projects via hand sketches and renders. Is this a bad idea?</p>
<p>If your renderings look like the ones on this page, put them in, otherwise avoid computer drawings in your portfolio.</p>
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<p>rick</p>
<p>don’t put in any google sketch up, CAD, drawn-up floor plans, etc. those are stuff you learn in school. they want to see CREATIVITY. not technical stuff that can be taught. i don’t know if you realized it yet, but alot of the award-winning architecture on this planet has creativity as the basis. without creativity, architecture would not be what it is.</p>
<p>If you’re good with a particular package or three, tho, you can list knowledge of such packages somewhere in your application. DD1 took a bunch of 3D modeling and arch drawing classes in HS and while she did not send out any CAD stuff in her portfolio she did some ‘name dropping’ in the relatively obligatory arch department application that most schools seem to have.</p>