Sample: architecture practice homepage.
Full-bleed project imagery, fast to load, with the enquiry path clear above the fold.
Website Design & Digital Marketing for Architects
Architects win better commissions online with a portfolio-grade website that shows the work at full quality and makes the practice easy to contact. Website design for architects is the foundation; SEO and local search then send the right clients (those planning a project in your area and budget) to a site built to make them enquire.
The client deciding who designs their home or building is looking you up before they ever call, and the first thing they judge is your website. If the work looks smaller on screen than it does in person, or the site is slow, dated, or hard to reach you through, the enquiry goes to a practice that presented itself better. We build architecture practices a site worthy of the work, then help the right clients find it, without the agency overhead or the black-box billing.
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No obligation, no sales pitch. Useful either way.
New to this? Learn the basics first →A few practices at a time · Nothing outsourced · Portfolio-grade builds · You own every account, permanently
Why do practices pick a small studio over a design or marketing agency?
Because most agencies hand your practice to an account manager and a team you’ll never meet, rarely let you own what they build, and lock you into a contract before you understand what you’re paying for. We work the other way round, and because we take on only a few practices at a time, the person who plans your work is the person who does it.
You work directly with the people doing the work No account manager relaying your notes to a team you can’t reach. You’re a designer; you’ll want to talk to the person shaping your site directly, about the grid, the type, how the images breathe. With us you always do.
Few clients, real attention Because we keep the list short, your practice gets a considered build, not a template pushed through on autopilot. That’s the trade: we can’t serve everyone, so the practices we do serve get the time the work needs, which, for an architect, is the whole point.
We won’t promise you #1 on Google Anyone who guarantees you the top spot is guessing, because nobody controls Google’s rankings. We’ll tell you what’s realistic for your area and the kind of projects you want, do that work, and show you the data either way.
What makes a good architecture-practice website?
A good architecture website does one job above all: it shows the work at full quality and makes it obvious how to start a conversation. That means large, fast-loading project images, a portfolio structured so each project can be found and understood on its own, and a clear path to enquire on every page. For most practices the website is the first (and sometimes only) impression a prospective client forms before deciding whether to call.
Your work is visual, so the site has to be built for it: images that load quickly without losing detail, a layout that holds up from a phone on a train to a large studio monitor, and project pages structured around the kind of work you want more of (residential, commercial, heritage, extensions) so the right clients recognise themselves in it. We build it to be genuinely fast, because an image-heavy site that crawls loses the enquiry before the first project even loads. And you own the whole thing: the domain, the hosting, and the analytics are all set up in your name. No more emailing a vendor to swap out a project image. If you ever leave, the site comes with you.
What is SEO for architects, and does it actually bring in commissions?
SEO for architects simply means: when someone searches “residential architect [city]” or “architect for a home extension,” your website is one of the answers they see. It brings in commissions when it’s pointed at the right searches: we build and shape pages around the project types you actually want more of, so the enquiries coming in are the ones worth your time, not requests for work you don’t take.
The goal isn’t traffic for its own sake. It’s the right people (clients planning a real project, at the moment they’re choosing who to brief) landing on the portfolio we built you. We shape your pages around the searches that matter in your area and your specialisms, fix the technical basics so Google can read and trust a heavily visual site, and send every one of those visitors to the website that does the actual convincing. You’ll understand what we changed and why. No black box, no monthly report you can’t decode.
How do architects show up when someone searches for one nearby?
Most people looking for an architect start local (“architects near me” or “architect in [city]”) and Google answers with a map and a short cluster of three practices at the top. That cluster is the “map pack,” and it’s where a large share of first calls come from. Getting your practice into it is what local SEO does: local SEO for architects is the work of making Google confident your practice is a real, established option in your area.
We work on your Google Business Profile (the free listing that feeds the map pack and shows your practice on Google Maps), your reviews, and consistent name, address, and phone details everywhere they appear online, plus location-specific pages if you take work across more than one area. When a client three suburbs over searches for an architect, you want to be one of the three names they actually see and call.
New to the listing that feeds it? our plain-English guide to Google Business Profile
Do I own my website and accounts, or does the studio?
You own everything: completely, and in your own name. Your website, your Google Business Profile, your Google Analytics, and your domain are all created under your practice, not ours. If a previous web vendor once held your site hostage when you asked to make a change, this is the fix.
Every account is in your name Website, hosting, domain, listing, analytics: all yours from day one, not held on your behalf.
No long contracts You pay for the work, not to be trapped. Practices stay because it’s working, not because a contract says they have to.
You leave with everything If the day ever comes, you walk away with every asset intact, including the site and every project image on it, the way it should have been all along.
Every account we build is in your name. No contracts. Nothing outsourced.
We don’t have a fake architecture case study to show you
Instead of a recycled “we grew a practice 400%” claim we can’t verify for your situation, here’s exactly what we build. The showcase below is a set of sample architecture-practice pages we designed as templates (clearly labelled as samples, not a real practice’s live site or results) so you can see how the projects are framed, how the images load and breathe, how the enquiry path sits, and how the portfolio is structured before you ever talk to us.
Sample: project / portfolio page.
Structured around a single project so it reads clearly and can rank for the work it represents.
Sample: studio & contact page.
Built to make the practice easy to reach, with the profile and location signals in place.
The proof that matters isn’t a screenshot. It’s how we work: (1) you own every account we build, and (2) nothing is outsourced, because we only take a few practices at a time.
Get a free look at your online presence
No obligation, no sales pitch. Useful either way.
See more of our work →Questions architecture practices actually ask
Do architects really need a website?
Yes. For most practices it’s the first impression a prospective client forms, often before they call, and the place they judge the quality of your work. A slow, dated, or hard-to-navigate site quietly loses commissions to practices that present themselves better. Even a simple, fast portfolio that shows the work well and makes you easy to reach will out-perform a beautiful one nobody can load.
Isn’t a portfolio site something I could just build myself on a template?
You can, and some architects do it well. Where practices tend to struggle is the part that isn’t visible: making a heavily image-based site load fast, structuring the portfolio so Google can read it, and setting up analytics and your listing properly so the site actually brings enquiries in. That’s the work we do, and we set it all up in your own accounts, so it stays yours either way.
How much does a website and marketing cost for an architecture practice?
It depends on how many projects you’re showing, whether you want a custom design or a refined template, and whether you’re adding SEO and local search on top of the build. We price on scope, transparently: you pay for the work, not agency overhead, and there are no long contracts. Ask for a custom quote after your free look and we’ll show you the real number before you commit to anything.
How do architects get more of the right clients online?
Three things working together: a portfolio-grade website that shows the work at full quality and makes you easy to contact, pages built around the project types and area you want more of so you rank for them, and a properly set-up local listing so you appear when someone nearby searches. We help you decide which mix fits your practice instead of selling you all of it by default.
Will I be locked into a long contract?
No. We don’t do long contracts, and you own every account we touch: your website, domain, analytics, and Google Business Profile are all in your name. If you ever want to leave, you take everything with you, including the site and every project image on it.
Can you guarantee I’ll rank #1 on Google?
No, and we’d be lying if we did, because nobody controls Google’s rankings. What we can do is work on the things that actually influence them and explain exactly what we’re doing, so you’re never in the dark about where your money goes.
Do you only work with certain kinds of architecture practices?
We work with small and owner-led practices across most specialisms: residential, commercial, heritage, extensions, interiors and more. What matters more than the specialism is that you’re a small practice that wants to work directly with the people building your site, not through an account manager.
Want to go deeper first? Read what a small-business website actually costs or a plain-English guide to how SEO works.
Get a free look at your online presence
We’ll review your website, your Google listing, and where you show up when someone searches for an architect in your area, then tell you plainly what’s working, what isn’t, and what to fix first. No jargon, no obligation, and you’re free to act on it yourself if you’d rather. Every account we build is in your name. No contracts. Nothing outsourced.
Get a free look at your online presence
No obligation, no sales pitch. Useful either way.