The portfolio is used to review the applicant’s potential to benefit from and contribute to the programme(s) chosen with regard to the following evaluation criteria. The decision of the review panels will be final.

1. Evidence of Drawing ability should be demonstrated through:
   • Examples of freehand, observation and/or technical drawing
   • Use of colour and texture
   • Variety of subject and media
2. Evidence of Practical ability should be demonstrated through:
   • Skills in visualisation (3D and 2D) 
   • Quality of presentation
   • Control over media
3. Evidence of Conceptual ability should be demonstrated through:
   • Investigation
   • Idea generation
   • Imagination and creativity

The portfolio is used to review the applicant’s potential to benefit from and contribute to the course chosen with regard to the following evaluation criteria. Evidence of ability to communicate ideas in projects will be illustrated through:

1. Evidence of Ability to Communicate Ideas 
   • Examples in single images
   • Examples across a series of images 
2. Evidence of Practical ability  
   • Composition
   • Technical skill
   • Quality of presentation 
3. Evidence of Creative ability 
   • Creative enquiry
   • Development of ideas
4. Photographic Work
   We would like to see a selection of your photographic work (up to 25 pieces) that best represents your creative, practical and conceptual skills and abilities. You may additionally submit pages from your notebooks or workbooks which show how you researched and developed your work. If you have had photographs published in magazines or online, you may submit them as well.

Failure to submit a portfolio will render an applicant ineligible for the above programme. Portfolios received after the above submission date will not be reviewed. The decision of the review panels will be final.

Applicants applying TU832 Architecture will be required to sit a Suitability Test AND Interview with Portfolio as part of the admissions process.

Applicants to the TU832 Bachelor of Architecture course do not need to submit their portfolio in advance. The portfolio will be presented as part of the online interview process. See further guidance at the link below. 

Requirements and closing dates for TU832 differ to those for our Creative Arts courses, full details are available at: https://www.tudublin.ie/study/undergraduate/cao/entry-requirements/auditions-interviews/