If you’ve recently completed your undergraduate or postgraduate thesis in architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, or urban planning—first, congratulations. You’ve just crossed one of the most intense milestones in design education. Months (if not years) of conceptual development, late-night model making, deadline sprints, juror critiques, and all-nighters have led you to this point.

But once the jury is over, the boards are rolled, and the models are dismantled, many students are left wondering:

“Now what?”
“What do I actually do with all of this work?”
“Is this thesis just going to sit on my hard drive forever?”

It’s a familiar problem.While your thesis is your most comprehensive and personal design effort, most schools don’t teach you how to translate that into a format that actually works in the real world—whether it’s for a job, a master’s application, a design competition, or freelance practice.

Instead, most graduates are left with:

• A massive PDF filled with academic jargon
• Dozens of sheets that lack narrative flow
• Diagrams that make sense only to professors
• Layouts designed for juries, not real-world communication

In other words: a great project trapped in the wrong format.

That’s where this guide comes in.