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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.

Repositioning Questions Part 2

  • 1.  Repositioning Questions Part 2

    Posted 01-09-2015 12:03 AM
    This message has been cross posted to the following Discussion Forums: Young Architects Forum and College of Fellows .
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    Bravo to all who contributed in the last few days. Here is a second quote from one of Group 7's correspondents. I think it confuses "architect" with "designer". We are not members of AID. Architects are designers who know about human environments, yes, no? Please share your thoughts here. "I would be very hesitant about calling an architect an "expert" on the relationship between humans and the built environment. Such a definition limits who we are as a profession and moves us further from our role as social, environmental, community, and urban innovators. Many of us focus on such small, but critical niches of design that to call ourselves experts on human-built environment relationship is far from the reality and would only serve to further mislead the general public." James Erickson Mike Mense FAIA Anchorage AK -------------------------------------------