Architect practice interview
Architectural design development, client briefing, technical detailing, consultant coordination and site-stage decisions. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Mid level
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview tests how you take an architectural project from brief through coordinated design and site-stage decisions. The panel will look beyond attractive images for clear design reasoning, buildable details, consultant coordination and honest communication about trade-offs.
How to prepare
- Select portfolio projects that show your own contribution at different design and delivery stages.
- Practise explaining how the site, brief, circulation and environmental conditions shaped one design.
- Review a technical detail and the performance, access and maintenance questions it resolves.
- Prepare an example of coordinating structural or building services information into the architecture.
- Check the official professional body for current registration or practice rules if they apply to the vacancy.
Common mistakes
- Showing polished images without explaining the brief, constraints and your own decisions.
- Discussing concept design while avoiding technical details and coordination problems.
- Defending design intent without listening to cost, maintenance or construction evidence.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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