Repositioning the Architect

Many professionals edcuated as Architects, and many of whom become registered, move into other fields of work. Should the profession acknowledge Architects who take on careers in something other than Architecture? If yes, how? If no, why not?

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Kyle McAdams AIA
Managing Director, Marketing and Business Development
The American Institute of Architects
Washington DC
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In response to Kyle who asks about architects who move on, acknowledgement is pointless, except maybe as a curiosity. I know of a physician who gave up medicine and became a preacher of sorts, a lawyer who became an entrepreneur in a tech field, and an architect who became a sales manager. Their professions didn't prepare them for their curent work, and there are few connections to their former professions' concerns.

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Allen Neyman AIA
Principal
StovallSmithNeyman and Associates Architects
Germantown MD
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-30-2012 17:03
From: Kyle McAdams
Subject: Repositioning: Architects who take on other careers.

Many professionals edcuated as Architects, and many of whom become registered, move into other fields of work. Should the profession acknowledge Architects who take on careers in something other than Architecture? If yes, how? If no, why not?

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Kyle McAdams AIA
Managing Director, Marketing and Business Development
The American Institute of Architects
Washington DC
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The question is why the AIA does not even acknowledge architects within the AIA who are registered architects but have chosen to work with non-traditional services, much less those who basically have left the profession.  It is almost impossible to be a non-traditional architect and get any sort of acknowledgement from the AIA that your firm's services are even architecture!   If one's own colleagues cannot understand that drawing buildings is not the be all and end all of architecture, how can we expect the public to know it????????

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Karen Warseck, AIA
President
Building Diagnostics Associates
Hollywood FL
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Show Original Message -------------------------------------------
Original Message:
Sent: 04-30-2012 17:03
From: Kyle McAdams
Subject: Repositioning: Architects who take on other careers.

Many professionals edcuated as Architects, and many of whom become registered, move into other fields of work. Should the profession acknowledge Architects who take on careers in something other than Architecture? If yes, how? If no, why not?

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Kyle McAdams AIA
Managing Director, Marketing and Business Development
The American Institute of Architects
Washington DC
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