{"id":89128,"date":"2021-08-13T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/?p=89128"},"modified":"2022-01-07T12:20:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:20:38","slug":"architecture-licensing-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/inspiration\/stories\/architecture-licensing-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shamefully Inequitable and Brutally Expensive&#8221;: Why Architecture Licensing is Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em>Browse the Architizer <a href=\"https:\/\/architecture-jobs.architizer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jobs Board<\/a> and apply for architecture and design positions at some of the world's best firms. Click here to sign up for our <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/architizer\/jobs-newsletter-subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jobs Newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Licensure is the final step in the long road of becoming an architect. Certification by the National Council of Architectural Certification Boards (NCARB) represents an official endorsement of professional capacity and opens up important career opportunities. In this regard, licensure for architects is akin to other fields such as law, medicine and psychology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, precarious employment and low pay create a high attrition rate and impact racial and social equity in architecture. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncarb.org\/press\/ncarb-releases-demographic-data-architecture-licensing-and-exam-performance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent NCARB report<\/a> revealed that just 63 percent of architects stayed on the path to licensure and slightly over half passed the Architect Registration Examination (ARE). Broken down by race, there are significant disparities \u2014 66 percent of White candidates remained on the licensure path compared to 46 percent of Black candidates and 57 percent of Hispanic candidates. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NCARB President Alfred Vidaurri Jr., FAIA, NCARB, AICP described the disparity as \u201cunacceptable.\u201d As evidenced by both statistics and anecdotes from those navigating the system, the current path to licensure is shamefully inequitable and brutally expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89899 lazy lazy_media_item\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NavigatingthePath-NBTN2021.png?resize=3334%2C3334&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"3334\" height=\"3334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/NavigatingthePath-NBTN2021.png?w=3334&amp;ssl=1 3334w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/NavigatingthePath-NBTN2021.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/NavigatingthePath-NBTN2021.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/NavigatingthePath-NBTN2021.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/NavigatingthePath-NBTN2021.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/NavigatingthePath-NBTN2021.png?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/NavigatingthePath-NBTN2021.png?resize=2048%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/NavigatingthePath-NBTN2021.png?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To achieve licensure, there are five requirements as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncarb.org\/get-licensed\/licensure-basics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outlined by the NCARB<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obtaining an architecture degree from a National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB)-accredited program<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Documented work experience in the field<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Passing the ARE<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fulfilling any additional local requirements<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sending your NCARB record to local jurisdiction<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each step comes with its own financial burden. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/inspiration\/industry\/cost-architect\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">average cost of an undergraduate architecture degree out of state is almost $180,000<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, not including an additional $50-100,000 for a Masters degree. The first years out of architecture school are particularly difficult as architects attempt to gain work experience in a notoriously low-paying field and must begin paying student loan debt. Given that experience is a requirement for licensure, employers may feel that by offering work experience to newly graduated students they are giving a favor, rather than a job.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Test preparation is another expensive hurdle. The <\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncarb.org\/sites\/default\/files\/BOB_ExperienceReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baseline on Belonging<\/span><\/a> <\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study released by the NCARB and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noma.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Organization of Minority Architects<\/a> (NOMA) in 2021 revealed that a plurality of test takers spend over $500 on preparation materials for the ARE. In response, NCARB is developing free materials to be released in 2022. The exam itself consists of six sections \u2014 practice management, project management, programming and analysis, project planning and design, project development and documentation, and construction and evaluation. Combined, the sitting time for the exam is over 24 hours with a total cost of $1,410. Retakes or an individual portion of the exam costs $235. As the pass rate is 54 percent, retakes are often a necessary step of the process and account for 35 percent of all exam administrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikki Crane, Assoc. AIA and Designer at Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects, voiced concern on how the cost of exams often falls on individuals and presents an insurmountable barrier to architects without the support of a firm. \u201cThese tests are so expensive and if my firm wasn\u2019t helping me pay for them, I couldn\u2019t afford 6 tests on my own, and that\u2019s just the tests, not including preparing to test. I\u2019ve spent (personally) around $1.5k on materials and study programs and I\u2019ve only made it halfway through.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Crane, change in the profession \u201cstarts with us.\u201d In order to make an impact, \u201cWe should be advocating locally on ways to change these numbers in our cities\/states. Start having these conversations in our AIA emerging professional groups. We can collaborate with our emerging and submerging colleagues on if there is a way to help make this path more equitable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organizing is undoubtedly an important step to creating lasting change, but the structural barriers are daunting and require major social and economic shifts. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baseline on Belonging, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a candidate remarked on how, \u201cLosing an architecture job during the 2008 recession prevented [them] from gaining relevant experience in a timely manner.\u201d As architecture is particularly susceptible to boom and bust building cycles, ensuring fairly compensated opportunities to gain work experience during recessions must be considered to combat attrition rates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NCAR<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">B has pledged to further investigate inequity in the licensure and examination process, with newly inducted NCARB President Vidaurri vowing to make \u201canalyzing, understanding, and addressing these disparities&#8230;a key focus.\u201d As part of this effort, the NCARB is inviting architects to share thoughts on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the evolving conversation on licensure. Feedback and comments to the NCARB can be submitted <a href=\"https:\/\/survey.alchemer.com\/s3\/6434444\/NCARB-Architecture-Licensing-Feedback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Browse the Architizer <a href=\"https:\/\/architecture-jobs.architizer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jobs Board<\/a> and apply for architecture and design positions at some of the world's best firms. Click here to sign up for our <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/architizer\/jobs-newsletter-subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jobs Newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCARB&#8217;s recent report on demonstrates that the path to becoming an architect is desperately in need of reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":89173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"architizer_featured_type":"insert","architizer_featured_image":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"architizer_project":[],"architizer_brand":[],"architizer_firm":[],"architizer_product":[],"class_list":["post-89128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Shamefully Inequitable and Brutally Expensive&quot;: Why Architecture Licensing is Broken - Architizer Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Precarious employment and low pay create high attrition rates in the licensure process, impacting racial and social equity in architecture.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/inspiration\/stories\/architecture-licensing-is-broken\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Shamefully Inequitable and Brutally Expensive&quot;: Why Architecture Licensing is Broken - Architizer Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NCARB&#039;s 2021 report demonstrates that the path to becoming an architect is inequitable and must change. 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