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The Young Architects Forum (YAF), a program of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the College of Fellows (COF), is organized to address issues of particular importance to recently licensed architects.

FAQ: What is a young architect and what is an emerging professional? Young architects are architects licensed up to ten years of initial licensure, and the name does not have any relationship to age. Emerging professionals are professionals who have completed their academic studies up to the point of licensure or up to 10 years after completion of their academic studies. Although young architects are now defined as distinct from emerging professionals, many components refer to these groups similarly. For example, a local YAF group may include emerging professionals and a local Emerging Professionals Committee may include young architects.

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Defining "Community" during a crisis

  • 1.  Defining "Community" during a crisis

    Posted 04-14-2020 12:43 AM
    Please add your own thoughts. These are questions I am pondering and trying to think how emerging professional architects are uniquely equipped to respond and strengthen the communities around them.
    1. How has your sense of "community" been changed by current events and responses to the global pandemic of COVID-19?
    2. Will this season of "Work from Home" shift the culture of your office? 
    3. When we can gather again, is there something that cannot be unlearned from this experience?


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    Katie Kangas AIA
    Founder | Pasque Architecture LLC
    Shoreview MN
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