Your guide to Architectena

Share ideas, articles, tutorials, critiques and questions with images and attachments. React, comment, save and follow topics. Drafts, scheduled posts and author-only private posts are supported.

Build a visual portfolio. Each project has a cover, gallery, location, year, programme and team — and can be linked to an office. Images are optimised automatically.

Find or post work. Filter by field, country and salary, view listings on a map, save searches for email alerts, and apply with a full form or one-click Quick apply — which the person who posted the job can switch off per listing.

Create a page for your firm — logo, cover, description, staff, portfolio, reviews, news and job board. A new office is submitted for review and goes public once an admin approves it; you can also save it as a draft only you can see. Follow an office and its news reaches you as soon as it is posted; new projects, jobs, press and awards are collected into one email digest that goes out on Monday mornings rather than notifying you each time. An office that is at least two weeks old and has some substance to score carries a 1–5 rating badge, and that badge is a percentile rank against the other rated offices, not an absolute mark — so your tier can move up or down as other offices change, even in a period when nothing about yours has. Newer offices show “New” instead and are left out of the ranking entirely. Tap the badge for the full breakdown.

Join or start communities around a topic, city or school. Post, discuss and react with members; admins and moderators manage membership and announcements.

Ask practical questions about codes, materials, methods and practice — and answer others. Questions and answers can be voted both up and down, so the most useful rise and the unhelpful sink.

A shared architectural atlas. Pin buildings and sites you find significant with notes, photos and coordinates; browse everyone's pins on a world map and discuss them.

The canon of the discipline — a reference on notable architecture and the people behind it, written by the community rather than curated from above. Any signed-in member can add a topic, suggest an edit to any section, vote on other members' suggested edits, request a topic nobody has covered yet, comment and follow. What you publish goes live straight away; moderators review what gets flagged.

A living CV with education, experience, skills, languages and certifications. Use the Public/Private pill in its header to control whether other members can see it. Export PDF builds the file on our servers and downloads it — your email and phone are printed in it only if you have marked those fields public.

Direct and group chats with other members — text, links and attachments, with read receipts and typing indicators in real time. One-to-one direct messages are end-to-end encrypted by default; see Privacy & safety below for what that means for your password.

Your private workspace — five tools nobody else can see: Todo lists with priorities and deadlines, personal Projects with a version-update history, one-off and recurring Reminders, Kanban Tasks with checklists and labels, and a Vault for your own files. The Vault holds up to 3 GB on the free plan; uploads are refused once you reach it.

If you run or work at an office, its Studio is a closed workspace for the team — manage staff and roles, post jobs, add projects, and see who's engaging with your page. Open it from the Manage button on your office.

One search bar across the whole platform — it searches ten kinds of thing: people, posts, projects, jobs, groups, offices, companies, products, Hall topics and Situ places, with instant previews as you type.

Followers, following, follow requests, and your mutes, restricts and blocks — review and manage every relationship from one screen.

Posting jobs? This is a read-only overview of how your hiring is going across every listing — the application funnel by stage, your acceptance rate, average days from apply to first interview, and your busiest jobs. You review, shortlist and respond to individual applicants on each job's own applicants page, not here.

Control your account, language, notification preferences and what each part of your profile shows — plus your follow requests, mutes and blocks under Privacy & moderation → User management. Account privacy itself is toggled from the lock control on your own profile.

Protect your account with two-factor authentication and one-time backup codes, and review the devices signed in to your account — each session is signed out individually, and there is no single sign-out-everywhere button. Sessions started with Google sign-in are not listed here.