A record-high number of candidates actively working toward an architect license provides more evidence of a thriving talent pool for the architect profession, according to new 2014 data released today by [NCARB]. More than 37,000 aspiring architects were testing and/or reporting experience hours last year, a substantial part of the path to architectural licensure required by the 54 U.S. state and jurisdiction licensing boards. — NCARB
NCARB CEO Michael Armstrong gave a first glimpse of key findings in the "NCARB by the Numbers" report today at the AIA Convention in Atlanta. Read the full press release here.
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"A record-high number of candidates actively working toward an architect license provides more evidence of a thriving talent pool for the architect profession, according to new 2014 data released today by [NCARB]."
Sadly this is not an accurate way to gauge the health of the industry, perhaps on how well colleges are thriving on churning out degrees, but in no means necessary are these potential individuals architects yet. To compound that, there are scores of "architects" already, that work for large and small corporate firms alike, that rarely, or if ever, stamp their own work.
If you were to actually (could) survey the number of new architect stamping drawings, I think that you would see that the numbers have actually drop significantly over the past several decades.
I have no doubts that the colleges made a killing in the past two decades.
Here's a good analogy ( I seem to do a lot analogies on here)
The architecture industry in general (and excuse my testosterone laiden example) sees 'licensure' as finally growing your nuts, and I get it, it is the end goal. Sadly, it is not the golden key that everyone wants it to be. You are not going to have clients with a license and no built work. You decide to work for an architect that is reputable, but said person wants to sign all thier work, and it makes sense, this persons firm. Your "nuts" get bottled up...you are literally walking around with your nuts in a jar of formaldehyde. Every once in a while you may get to throw your nuts on the table, show them off, even do a project here or there for some rich friend or uncle, but every time there you are scraping them up, hurrying to get them from drying up.
All in all, it is becoming ever harder for new architects to actually find work for themselves to stamp. There are a number of factors, from over building over the past 30 years, to the dumbing down of America, to the building catastrophe of 2008, to globalization ( which is really just a term that in it purest form means multinational industry & government throughout the world holding hands).
If I was to say, architecture may have a record number of smart individuals biting at the chomp to become some glorious next "starchitect", but I think for most "licensed architects" the glory is fairly lacking.
NCARB measures success by the amount of fees it collects.
More is always better. So is bigger.
U$A!
8 out of 10 architecture school graduates suck and have no business working in the field, not sure what percentage of graduates move on to get their licenses, but any way you look at it there are a bunch incompetent hack jobs out there holding professional status.
Case in point, if you are 22 and licensed, you don't know your dick from a hole in the ground.
One thing we can do to "protect" the profession is flush out all the turds that don't know what the fuck they are doing. NCARB can suck it, as miles said, their success is measured in fee count, they don't give two shits about the competency of the people in the system. A whole generation that was sitting on their asses since 2008, fuck it, they might as well all get licensed since there was no real work to do.
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