Architects: How many of you are licensed?

Just as a heads up, you might want to condense your threads, you don't need a thread for every question you have.

 

I'm licensed in FL, UT, and AZ. I'm going to let me UT and AZ lapse this year. I sued to have my license in 15 states or so (mostly southeast and Mid Atlantic). I originally got my FL license in 1993 when I was 25.

BT

 

wow....... you didn't make enough threads.

 

He's trying to catch up with Pappy, leave him alone.

Cue Pappy to come in here and say Nice Mate

in 3...2...

 

there is no such thing as an unlicensed Architect -- hee hee
A dozen states at one point in time - a waste of money to keep active
cheers

 

Forty eight states, soon to be reduced to only my home state. It's a nightmare to maintain it all.

 

I got my TX license in Architecture in March 1982; gave it back November 2005, a year after my decision to discontinue practice.

Once an architect, always an architect, I've found since then. I don't regret giving up the credentials, though. Too many greedy abogados out there for my liking.

 

I hear you !!!
Did you have Alaska under your belt ???
If was fun going thru the special engineering class for that State !!

 

NY, and all of the European Union (My Dutch registration reciprocates in all of the EU).

No (F)AIA, BNA (Dutch equivalent) or NCARB. No LEEDS, but my wife has everything. Including one of the rare female FAIA (On merit rather than longevity).

 

You must have had a fulltime employee to do this. It's hard enugh to keep up one or two states.

 

What do you mean you "sued to get license"?

May I ask what you mean by "greedy abogados"? Why did you "give it back"?

 

A. In Spanish, abogado means lawyer. They sue other professional people for a living.

B. I retired from practice and don't need it any more.

 

FL and VA, 1988. I let FL go to inactive status a long time ago. Went to the dark side and became a construction lawyer in 98, barred in VA and DC.

In my opinion, the architectural registration exam was more difficult than the bar. But when I took it, you still had to take all nine parts together (on your first try). I understand that is no longer the case.

 

cincy graduate early 90's, no license... started the exam passed a few sections, got busy with life/work, didn't finish the exam, not happy to read the profession has 30-50% unemployment that seems close to accurate... been through too many roller coaster rides with this profession.

 

I did not sue, nor have I ever sued anyone. I had my license previously in 15 states.

BT

 

Yes, same here. I took the entire exam in 93 and passed all of it. I was sure I did best on the predesign but only scored a 79 IIRC. I thought I failed the M?e?p section but scored a 97 on that. A friend that I hired out of undergrad school worked for me while he got his master's degree and then took the test. I think he was taking one section at a time and it took him about three years to complete the exam. I don't have that kind of patience.

BT

 

What parts did they take out?

TX is still strong, but big firms are laying off more than hiring.

 

They didn't take any sections away really, just reformatted the exam to sprinkle the graphic sections thorough out it making it a bit more of a PITA.

I had a firm with my father(licensed) on the monterey peninsula that we had to shut down some years ago due to some health issues on his part. The good part of that is dad's still around.

Moved to Chicago to work with a college friend and had a good run with him for a few years and have bounced around since with different downturns.

Potentially pursuing the NCIDQ to get into teaching locally as it seems a bit less volatile(hopefully). The idea of the ARE right now after doing mostly corporate interior work over the last 10 years is proving to be a bit daunting.

When it's good, it's a great profession, the not good is getting old as I'm not sure license or not would have made much of a difference in smoothing any of that.

Dad & I are back to getting what work we can together in chicago and the central coast of ca. to keep plugging along, as you all know that's not easy right now in any regard.

 

I took the exams in 1980 and 1981, pre-ARE.

It was composed of four multiple choice sections given over 2 days, then a 12-hour graphic design problem.

 

Our design problem was the same, 12 hours balls to the wall. I failed the first go-round in summer '80 and had to wait till December '81 to retake, passed that time.

 

The sections I took in the early 90's were the last hand written versions offered. Took 5 sections/passed three a the time. I did the 12hr design...ugh... didn't pass at the time.

 

Late 80's I did the nine exams without any US knowhow. Passed five sections. The next year I studied and passed the rest. The 12 hour design session was interesting. First time I had no idea what they were looking for, and failed miserably. I took some dry runs and passed next time. It was not about design at all.