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Give every project a place on your architecture website,
sorted by building type and location.

Describe your practice and Netiva’s AI builds a studio site with a filterable project archive, credited photo and film galleries, team profiles and a press page — with a live preview and code you own.

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Starter prompt

Build a website for a 15-person architecture and interiors studio. Store projects with building type (Residential, Workplace, Cultural, Education, Hospitality, Adaptive reuse), city, country, status (Completed, Under construction, In design, Competition, Unbuilt), year, description and credits. The archive filters by building type, country and status. Project pages open photographs, drawings and walkthrough films full screen, crediting the photographer or visualizer under every item. Add a studio page with profiles grouped by office and linked to their projects, a press page of features and awards, and an inquiry form that emails the studio.

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Overview

Who this architecture website is for

Architecture and interior design studios win commissions on the strength of past work, yet many practice sites make that work hard to find. A fixed portfolio grid stops helping once you have 40 projects across housing, schools and interiors, and every completion means another request to a web designer. An architecture website built with Netiva keeps projects, media, people and press as related records. Visitors filter the archive by building type, country and status, every photograph carries its credit, and the studio and press pages update as soon as you add a record.

Key features

What your architecture website can do

  • A project archive by building type and place

    Each project is one record with its building type, city, country, status and year. The projects page reads those fields as filters, so a visitor can narrow the archive to completed cultural buildings in one country in two clicks.

    • Building type, country and status filters that combine
    • Built, in-progress, competition and unbuilt work labeled apart
    • A filtered view you can send as a link
    • Saved grid views, such as competition entries or projects with no year yet

  • Galleries for photographs, drawings and film

    Photographs, plans, sections and films sit in a media collection related to each project. The project page groups them by kind and opens any image full screen with its caption and credit.

    • Video fields for walkthroughs, drone footage and construction time-lapses
    • Renderings and models tagged so they don’t pass for built work
    • Alt text on every image for screen reader users
    • The photographer or visualizer named under each item

  • The studio and the people behind the work

    Team profiles live in their own collection and relate to the projects each person worked on, so a principal’s page lists their buildings and every project page names its team.

    • Roles, offices and credentials written as each person holds them
    • A studio page with the practice statement, leadership and full team
    • Bios and credits tidied into one house style across many rows at once
    • People grouped by office, so a practice in two cities lists each studio

  • Press, awards and new inquiries

    Features, reviews, awards and exhibitions are dated records tied to a project, so the press page stays in order and each project shows its own coverage. Prospective clients and editors each get a form that emails the studio.

    • A press timeline filtered by kind of coverage
    • Press kit requests with outlet and deadline
    • Project inquiries with building type, location and timeline
    • Team sign-in for the media check screen
Data model

The collections behind it

Netiva keeps your records in built-in collections. Here’s a starting structure — the agent adapts it to your prompt, and you can change it any time.

Projects

Every commission you want to show, built or not.

  • Name (required) Text
  • Building type (required) Residential, Workplace, Cultural, Education, Hospitality, Adaptive reuse… Text
  • City (required) City only for private homes — no street address Text
  • Country (required) Used as the location filter; keep the spelling consistent Text
  • Status (required) Completed, Under construction, In design, Competition or Unbuilt Text
  • Year Year completed, or year designed for unbuilt work Number
  • Description (required) HTML
  • Credits Client, collaborators and contractor, as each has agreed to be named Paragraph

Media

The photographs, drawings and films that make up each project’s gallery.

  • Project (required) Relation to Projects
  • Image Also used as the poster for a film Image
  • Video Walkthroughs, drone footage and time-lapses Video
  • Kind (required) Photograph, Rendering, Drawing, Model or Film Text
  • Caption Text
  • Alt text What the image shows, for screen reader users Text
  • Credit (required) Photographer, visualizer or filmmaker, in the wording their license asks for Text
  • Press use (required) Cleared or Not cleared, based on the license Text

People

Principals and staff shown on the studio page.

  • Name (required) Text
  • Role (required) Principal, Associate, Project architect, Interior designer… Text
  • Office For practices with more than one studio Text
  • Credentials As held, such as the state or register where someone is licensed Text
  • Portrait Image
  • Bio Paragraph
  • Projects Projects this person worked on Relation to Projects

Press

Coverage, awards and exhibitions, newest first.

  • Headline (required) Text
  • Outlet (required) Publication, award program or exhibition Text
  • Kind (required) Feature, Review, Interview, Award, Shortlist, Exhibition or Book Text
  • Published on (required) Date
  • Project Leave blank for coverage of the whole practice Relation to Projects
  • Link Address of the article or announcement Text
  • Pull quote A short excerpt, credited to the outlet Paragraph

Required field. Types are Netiva collection field types.

Screens

Pages and screens to start with

A typical first version. Ask the agent for more, or annotate the preview to change any of them.

  • Projects

    The whole archive as a grid of lead photographs, with building type, country and status filters that combine and can be shared as a link.

    Public

  • Project

    Description and credits, a gallery grouped into photographs, drawings and films that opens full screen, the project team and its press coverage.

    Public

  • Studio

    The practice statement, offices, leadership and full team, plus the new-project inquiry form.

    Public

  • Person

    Portrait, role, office, credentials as held, a short bio and the projects that person worked on.

    Public

  • Press

    Features, reviews, awards and exhibitions by date, filterable by kind, with a press kit request form for editors.

    Public

  • Media check

    Images and films missing a credit or alt text, and items not yet cleared for press use, grouped by project.

    Your team
How it works

From prompt to a live architecture website

  1. Sort your body of work

    Tell Netiva which building types you design, which countries you work in and how you label unbuilt and competition work. The agent drafts collections for projects, media, people and press and binds them to the archive and project pages.

  2. Load projects with their credits

    Add projects in the collection grid, then attach photographs, drawings and films with the photographer or visualizer named on each. The collection assistant can put every credit into one house style or translate descriptions in bulk.

  3. Browse it like a client would

    Try the filters in the live preview with real projects and open a gallery full screen. Annotate anything you want changed, from image crops to the order of the filters, and the agent updates it — no code required.

  4. Publish on the practice’s domain

    Publish in one click; connecting your own domain needs the Starter plan or higher. Every edit is checkpointed, so a home page reworked for an awards announcement can be rolled back afterwards.

Why Netiva

Netiva vs a traditional build

Building an architecture website with Netiva compared with a traditional build
Criterion With Netiva Traditional build
Portfolio filters Building type, country and status filters read straight from each project record A fixed grid that someone reorders by hand whenever a project is added
Image credits A credit field on every image, shown wherever it appears and checked on a team screen Credits typed into captions one by one and dropped when an image is reused elsewhere
Getting started Describe what you need in chat and watch it take shape in a live preview Hire developers, or stitch together templates, plugins and a hosting plan
Content and data Built-in collections with nine field types, bound straight to your pages Set up and connect a separate database or CMS
Making changes Ask the agent; every change is checkpointed and reversible File a ticket, wait for a sprint, redeploy
Hosting and domain Global hosting and automatic SSL; connect a custom domain from the Starter plan Buy hosting, then install and renew SSL certificates yourself
Code ownership Clean production code you own and can export Locked into a template, plugin or agency setup
Examples

Ways teams use it

  • A 12-person practice bidding for public work

    When a school district issues a request for qualifications, the marketing coordinator filters the archive to completed education projects and includes that link with the submission.

  • A two-person interior design studio

    Private homes show only the city, clients stay unnamed when they ask, and hospitality interiors get their own building type so restaurant and hotel owners find them quickly.

  • A practice with offices in two countries

    People pages show each architect’s office and where they are registered, a country filter separates the work in each market, and translated project descriptions are reviewed before they go live.

Good to know

Before you build

  • Photographs are usually licensed, not owned

    Unless you have a signed assignment of copyright — or a work-for-hire agreement that qualifies — the photographer keeps it and licenses the images to you. Check the license covers your site, award entries and press use before you mark an image cleared.

  • Who can be called an architect

    The UK Architects Act limits trading under a name containing “architect” to people on the ARB register, with exceptions such as landscape architect and firms whose architectural work is supervised by a registered person. US states restrict the title to licensed architects.

  • Be clear about renderings and past work

    Label renderings, models and competition entries so visitors don’t mistake them for finished buildings. If a principal worked on a project at a previous firm, say so and name the firm where the work was done.

  • Your current site isn’t imported

    Netiva doesn’t copy projects from your existing website. Enter them in the collection grid, or describe them to the collection assistant and review the rows it drafts, starting with the work you most want to be hired for.

FAQ

Questions about building an architecture website

Can visitors filter projects by building type and location?

Yes. Building type, country and status are fields on every project, and the projects page turns them into filters that combine — for example, completed cultural buildings in one country. City is a separate field, so it shows on the project page without splitting the filter. You choose the building types, so the practice can use its own terms, such as adaptive reuse or multifamily. Ask the agent to keep the chosen filters in the page address so a filtered view can be shared.

How should an architecture website credit photographers and visualizers?

Give every image and film a credit field and show it next to the item, including in the full-screen gallery, using the wording the photographer’s license asks for. A kind field marks each item as a photograph, rendering, drawing, model or film, so visualizations are labeled as such, and a team screen lists anything still missing a credit or alt text.

Can a project page include walkthrough films and drawings?

Yes. Netiva collections have image and video fields, so one media collection can hold photographs, plans and sections as images and a walkthrough or construction time-lapse as video. Each item carries a kind, and the project page groups them so drawings sit apart from photography. Netiva doesn’t produce renderings, models or films; you upload the ones your team or visualizer made.

Can we publish a private house without revealing where it is?

Yes. City and country are separate fields, so a private residence can show just its city and country and never needs a street address, while the country field drives the archive filter. Leave the client out of the credits if they’ve asked to stay anonymous, and check photographs for house numbers or views that identify the property before you mark them cleared.

Does this work for an interior design studio?

Yes. Swap the building types for the categories your clients look for, such as residential, hospitality, workplace or retail interiors, and use the location and status filters the same way. Team profiles list design credentials as held, and the galleries suit room-by-room photography. Product sourcing, specifications and client billing aren’t part of this site and would need a separate app.

Which Netiva plan does an architecture practice need for its own domain?

You can build the site on the free plan and review it in the live preview. Connecting the practice’s own domain needs the Starter plan or higher, and higher plans add capacity and features such as advanced SEO tools from the Pro plan. Compare the current plans on Netiva’s pricing page before you connect your domain.

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Drafted with AI assistance from Netiva’s product pages and reviewed by the Netiva team. Example data models, screens and prompts are illustrative starting points, not customer projects.

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