Being able to draw, and translate 3D space onto paper is an important skill for architecture school — this doesn’t mean you have to be incredible at drawing photorealistic, complex perspectives (and some people might find it’s more important as a part of their practice than others). What universities want to see is that you can communicate with drawing. And this can take lots of different, personal forms…

To see how you use drawing to communicate, lots of universities will send you a drawing task to complete. At some schools you might have to do one at interview. These take lots of different forms, but they’re all focus on how you can think and communicate visually. 

In this episode we take you through some different formats of architecture drawing tasks, and offer some advice on how you might to approach them. At the end we give some general advice for good drawing practices at this stage of application — the dos and don’ts that can be applied to any drawing you might be asked for in an application.