About ArchiNetworks
ArchiNetworks is a professional network built for one industry only: architecture. It is where students, graduates and practices across the United Kingdom meet through the work itself.
Why it exists
Architecture is a discipline you can see. A drawing, a model, a section through a building says more about someone than a list of job titles ever will. Yet almost everyone entering the profession is asked to introduce themselves through a CV, on a network built for every industry at once, where what you get seen for is decided by an algorithm.
At the same time, practices struggle to find the people they would actually like to work with. Good students go unnoticed because they have no route to the studios they admire, and studios repeat the same recruitment cycle because they have no way to see who is out there.
ArchiNetworks exists to close that gap: the people entering architecture are seen for the work they make, and the practices looking for them can find that work directly.
What we are trying to achieve
- Work first. Profiles are built around projects, drawings and skills — not keywords.
- Members only, and quiet. Roles, practices and profiles all sit behind the sign-in, so what a practice posts here is read by architecture, not by scrapers and aggregators. Nothing happens between two people until both agree, and there is no feed to keep up with.
- A real route into the profession. Placements, Part 1 and Part 2 roles and first jobs, from practices we have checked by hand.
- Free for the people who need it most. Students and graduates never pay.
For students & graduates
Join free with your university .ac.uk email — a six-digit code confirms your address. Build a profile around your stage, skills, projects and what you are open to, and let practices find you. You decide who reaches you: connection requests need your acceptance.
For practices
Add your practice and we review it by hand before the page goes live. Approved studios can search students and graduates by skill, education stage and availability, read their work, and contact the people they want directly — up to five a day, so outreach stays considered on both sides.
Add your practice · what practices get
Questions
Why do I need an account to see roles? Because the practices posting them asked for it. Behind a sign-in a role reaches architecture students, graduates and architects — not scrapers, and not the aggregators that repost it a week later with the details wrong. Signing up takes a minute.
Is it really free? Free for students and graduates, always. Practices post roles free while we are growing, and there is no charge to be found here.
Who sees my portfolio? Signed-in members and the practices hiring here — nobody else. Profiles are behind the sign-in and kept out of search engines, so your work is never published to Google. Your CV, your applications and your messages stay private to you and the practices you apply to.
I'm a practice — what does it cost to hire? Nothing to register, post roles or read applications. Add your practice and we will verify it, usually the same day.
Where we are
We are launching in the United Kingdom first, and building the rest with the people who use it. Questions, ideas or problems: hello@archinetworks.com.