The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) are among several organizations who have helped found the Alliance for Responsible Professional Licensing (ARPL)—a new coalition of technical professions focused on educating policymakers and the public about the importance of rigorous professional licensing standards. — NCARB
In a press release announcing the creation of ARPL, NCARB CEO Michael J. Armstrong said, “Complex professions are at risk of being swept up in broad calls to reduce licensing requirements for occupations and vocations. It is important for us to work with other technical professions to ensure public safety isn’t compromised by broad brush deregulatory efforts.”
AIA CEO Robert Ivy echoed the sentiment, adding, “The best way to maintain the public’s confidence is to continue to require that architects demonstrate rigorous and ongoing education, examination, and experience. Attempts to weaken or undermine professional licensing requirements for architects not only harm our profession, but could potentially endanger public health, safety, and welfare."
ARPL members include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB), the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) and the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES).
Since the public doesn't even know we have to go through a lengthy, rigorous, and expensive licensing process I don't think maintaining the public's perception is going to do much. It's almost like these organizations operate in a vacuum.
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and yet developers seem to make all of the decisions.... why is that
Plus contractors and our consultants walk away with all the money. You'd think being this strict with licensure would increase the architecture professions worth and not just it's reputation in the public's eyes. It would be nice to be valued in the public's opinion and make a decent income...
The public has confidence in architects?
Whatever ... its just a bunch of people who cant work in the real world that are creating cushy jobs for themselves...
The AIA and NCARB ? Say it isn't so.
the AIANRCARBHPRT abuses architects ... and does nothing to help them in the larger public. Like a form of academia, where the knives are long but the stakes are low. Just go to another country, there’s no limits on what you can build
A friend of mine, with no architectural education, designed a building in another country just from random pictures found on the internet -- built by local laborers. It turned out pretty good. In the US you need a PHD to design a gas station. No wonder people just go to random developers and get their drawings stamped by Joe Schmo AIA.
But did your friend get paid more than you?
It was pro bono as it was her own house -- which saved $ by default. Ended up as a 25k huge modern house, built with great details by hand -- local craftsman. Not a replicable model to US, but I wonder what alternative models we should be using rather than the silly bureaucracy we have now.
Since the public doesn't even know we have to go through a lengthy, rigorous, and expensive licensing process I don't think maintaining the public's perception is going to do much. It's almost like these organizations operate in a vacuum.
This is all about mandating fee collection.
NCARB is a useless organization.
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