For an architect, the website is the direct extension of the work. It must showcase projects with the same rigour as the drawings, load without compromising image quality, and orchestrate the visitor's journey the way you compose a volume. A heavy, slow or dated site contradicts everything your work stands for.
An architect's site is not a catalogue. It is a project in its own right, with its light, its rhythm, its typography, its transitions. Each page must be conceived as a space: a generous entrance, clear circulation, calculated viewpoints on flagship projects. The design must step back to serve the image, without ever becoming invisible.
We design sites for practices that reject off-the-shelf solutions. Custom development (React, Next.js) allows for very high-resolution images, full-screen galleries, fluid transitions, without compromising performance. No WordPress plug-ins that weigh things down: clean, optimised, sustainable code.
The attention paid to typographic detail, spacing and visual hierarchy is what distinguishes an architect's site from a mere portfolio. We work this grammar with the same rigour as a printed visual identity.
An architect is not after volume. They're after the right projects: a demanding private client, a developer who values architecture, an ambitious public body. SEO must be designed for these specific audiences, not for the mass. Working on long-tail queries ('contemporary house architect region', 'heritage renovation architect'), publishing project analysis articles, polishing each reference page.
Our approach combines technical optimisation of the site, editorial structuring of projects (description, dates, surface, programme, credited photographer) and gradual authority on the topics you defend. The goal is not to rank for 'architect' — too broad — but for the angles that match your signature.
An architecture practice is judged on its images. The instinct is therefore to fill the site with full-resolution photography, even if that makes it slow. That is exactly what drives mobile visitors away and what Google penalises through Core Web Vitals.
We deal with this upfront: modern formats, dimensions calibrated for each display, deferred loading below the fold, and a layout that gives every project room to breathe. The result is a portfolio that opens instantly on a phone while keeping print-level finesse on a large screen.
Structure matters as much as speed. One page per project — named, dated, located, described in a few lines — turns a silent portfolio into a set of indexable pages: the ones that let a client find you by searching for a project type in their region rather than by your name.
A portfolio shows projects; a practice website explains a way of working. Clients rarely choose on aesthetics alone — they want to understand the process, the project types you handle, the scales you work at and how the practice runs a build. A good site does both.
By combining project type and location. 'House extension architect' plus a district, or 'period apartment renovation' plus a city, are far more reachable and far better qualified than 'architect' plus a capital. One page per major project type, backed by real, located projects, builds that visibility within months.
No. A tight, well-documented and coherent selection serves the practice better than an exhaustive catalogue. Ten projects presented with a real narrative — context, constraint, response, outcome — beat forty silent galleries nobody scrolls to the end of.

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