Unlicensed Architects: Why does it feel bad to be right?
This is the first of a few posts I am going to write on all the emotion and confusion surrounding the word architect: unlicensed architects, who can be called an architect, the licensing process...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name: Want to call yourself an Architect?
This is the second post dedicated to all the emotion and confusion surrounding the word architect. In all fairness, I could have used the person I singled out in the first post as the non-architect...
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Guest Blogger Jeremiah Gammond: Every Building has an Architect(ural...
Jared’s Note: Jeremiah originally wrote this post for his own site. I asked him if I could share it on Shoegnome because it fits so well with the recent discussions on the use of the word architect and...
View ArticleGuest Blogger Willard Williams: Designers Masquerading as Architects
Designers masquerading as architects is a topic within the profession that bothers me deeply. I have had numerous co-workers (architectural educated/trained designers) publicly call themselves...
View ArticleGuest Blogger Jeremiah Gammond: What’s in a Name?
Nurse, doctor, mechanic, carpenter, lawyer, prostitute……..architect. These occupational titles are well-seated in the vocabulary of most. They are descriptive and, though there’s variance in the...
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The Architect’s Greatest Fear: The Usurper
What’s the difference between the Principal and the Intern? It’s not talent. It’s experience and power. How familiar is this story to you: The firm wants fresh interns, not people ready to lead...
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Blacksmith, Telephone Operator, Architect
I tend towards pessimism when I reflect on the role of architects twenty years from now. Many of our prominent voices promote the myth of the lone visionary, fail to support less experienced...
View ArticleWant to call yourself an Architect? Just get licensed
Over the past few months we’ve all been talking about people calling themselves architects. This is a very sensitive subject for so many reasons. In one sense it’s a bit of an existential problem...
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Hi, I am an Architect but let me add some qualifiers
Clearly we need a better definition and/or unified laws regarding the term architect. Clarity will help explain and define our value as architects. It will also benefit our unlicensed brethren and all...
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Why are we hanging Architects for the illegal actions of a homeowner?
Did you catch the story about the homeowner who caused the death of a firefighter because he didn’t build to code? It’s a tragic story. Here’s the link: German architect gets one-year sentence in...
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An architect can architect architecture?
This Guest Post is by Alicia Liebel Berg Jared’s Update 01/16/14: make sure to read the great counterpoint in the first comment by Parallax. A few weeks ago I watched in horror as the media-starved...
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Four Architects having Coffee
On February 12, 2014 I sat down with another architect in a coffee shop in Kirkland, Washington (just across Lake Washington from Seattle, for those of you not fortunate enough to live in the Pacific...
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Goodbye Intern. Hello Architect in Training
When it comes to what to call people who design buildings, I’m a hardliner. To me it’s pretty black and white. Okay well there are some fuzzy edges, but not for most of us. And most likely you don’t...
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Dear Architect: what would you say you do here
At my first full time architecture job, I used to watch Office Space every morning before heading to work. I was a lowly intern. It was not a busy time for architects. I was not happy. I really liked...
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You graduated from Architecture School and want to be called Architect
Perhaps the only debate that is more endless (is that even possible?) than the which is is better Revit or ArchiCAD brawls, is the question of what to call unlicensed individuals who design buildings....
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