Websites for Architects

An architect’s website is, unavoidably, a piece of design. Every architect who visits your site will form an opinion about your aesthetic sensibility within seconds. Every potential client will decide whether your work matches their taste before they read a word. Your portfolio has to be presented with the same care you would give to a planning submission — beautifully, precisely, and with nothing that distracts from the work itself. We build WordPress websites for architects that provide a stunning showcase for your projects while handling the practical business of attracting and converting the right clients.

Portfolio — Let the Work Speak

Your portfolio is your website. Everything else supports it. The design of the site itself needs to be confident enough to frame your work without competing with it — clean lines, generous white space, and typography that is considered but not distracting. The images are what matter, and they need room to breathe.

We build portfolio systems that do justice to architectural photography. Full-width images. Smooth gallery navigation. The ability to organise projects by type — residential, commercial, heritage, public realm — so visitors can quickly find work relevant to their needs. Each project page should feel like a complete story, not just a grid of photos with a caption.

Project Case Studies That Win New Work

A beautiful photograph of a finished building is compelling, but the story behind it is what wins commissions. Clients want to understand your process — how you approached the brief, what challenges the site presented, how you navigated planning, what materials you chose and why, how the project evolved from concept sketches to completion.

We help you structure project case studies that include process photography — initial site photos, sketch concepts, model images, construction progress, and the finished building in use. Before and after comparisons are particularly powerful for renovation and conversion projects. These case studies demonstrate not just what you designed, but how you think, and that is what prospective clients are really evaluating.

For each project, we can include key details — project type, location, size, budget range, planning authority, completion date, awards received — in a structured sidebar or summary, so the essential facts are easy to find without interrupting the visual narrative.

Sectors and Specialisms

If your practice works across multiple sectors — residential extensions, new-build homes, commercial fit-outs, listed buildings, community facilities — your website should make it easy for a prospective client to see relevant work. Someone looking for an architect to design their house extension wants to see domestic projects, not office buildings. A developer looking for a commercial architect wants to see commercial work, not kitchen renovations.

We build filtering and categorisation systems that let visitors navigate your portfolio by sector, scale, or project type. This is not just about user experience — it is about showing each potential client that you have specific, relevant experience in the kind of project they are planning.

RIBA Membership and Professional Standing

RIBA chartered practice status, ARB registration, and any specialist accreditations — such as RIBA conservation accreditation or Passivhaus certification — are important signals of professional competence. For many clients, particularly those who have not commissioned an architect before, these credentials provide reassurance that they are working with a properly qualified and regulated professional. We make sure they are visible and presented with appropriate context.

Awards and recognition — RIBA awards, Civic Trust awards, local architecture prizes, or features in publications like the Architects’ Journal or Dezeen — are powerful endorsements. We integrate these into your project case studies and create a dedicated awards section so the recognition your work has received is easy to find.

The Planning Process — Demystified

Many of your potential clients — especially private homeowners — find the planning process confusing and intimidating. A section of your website that explains how planning permission works, what permitted development means, how listed building consent differs from standard planning, and what your role is in managing the process can be enormously helpful. It positions your practice as approachable and client-focused, and it attracts organic search traffic from people in the early stages of considering a project.

If your practice works extensively with heritage or listed buildings, explaining the specific planning and conservation considerations involved helps the right clients find you. Bath, with its wealth of Georgian architecture, is a city where expertise in working with historic buildings is particularly valuable — and your website should make that expertise clear.

A Platform That Keeps Pace With Your Practice

We build architect websites on WordPress because it combines the design flexibility your portfolio demands with the practicality of a system you can manage yourself. Adding a new project, updating your team page, or publishing a news post about a planning approval or award does not require a developer. We design and build the framework; you fill it with the work that defines your practice.

If your architectural practice needs a website that presents your work with the quality it deserves and helps the right clients find you, call us on 01225 667 977 or get in touch through our contact form. We are based in Bath, surrounded by some of the finest architecture in the country — we understand what makes a building, and a website, worth looking at.