Your portfolio should record your ideas, the processes and the result of your work as a designer. It can also contain other information, such as your professional work in an architectural office, to creative work in related artistic disciplines, your built work if you have construction experience, and written work if it is very important.
The portfolio should have different shape regarding to the purpose it serves.
Your portfolio is not just your passport, but also the document through which how you understand architecture. It is your chance to clarify and share what you believe and aspire to, and to present new ideas, techniques, observations and experiences, mainly to others but sometimes just to yourself.
There is no longer a single type or format of portfolio that will fit all contexts. You need to decide depends on the destination or design culture.
