Nationwide Hub-and-Spoke in the Architecture and Parallel Professional Licensing Markets
Coming December 2026
NCARB is the regulatory hub of a closed-loop sextumvirate with NAAB, AIA, ACSA, AIAS, and NOMA — co-located, interlocking, and jointly facilitating licensure across fifty-five U.S. jurisdictions.
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Causal Effect Analysis: De-Professionalization of the Architect
May 12, 2018
Through an inductive analysis of architecture commencement speeches, this study reveals that architecture school curricula in the US focuses on development of spatial problem solving skills which can be interpreted as art. Graduates are expected to acquire the remaining entry level skills through on the job training as interns. Such extreme lack of qualifications for licensure creates a prolonged gap between graduation and licensure leading to low morale among architecture graduates. Meanwhile, the public perception of architects as artists is stratified. This causal-effect study focuses on the degradation of the architect’s skills that has led to deprofessionalization of the architect.
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Architecture Licensure Path: Structural Analysis
June 16, 2018
An inductive analysis of the architecture licensure path as a state-sponsored monopoly compromising public safety and candidate interest.
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Curricular Attrition: Erosion of Architecture School Curriculum in the US
July 8, 2018
Comparison of the intended versus the actual curriculum taught in US architecture schools.
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Briefing Paper: Policy Alternatives for State Board of Architectural Examiners
December 23, 2017
A policy analysis for the offices of the governors in the fifty U.S. jurisdictions on public intervention to dismantle monopoly control over architectural licensure.
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Karachi’s Urban State: City of Lights / City of Problems
December 18, 2004
The port city once known as the City of Lights is now known for its smog. A city once known as a city of progress is now known as the city of problems.
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Journal of Criticism: Thumbnail Critiques
December 3, 2005
Thumbnail critiques of the Cheesecake Factory, Gehry’s cloned metallic trophies, the Newschool white box, Venturi’s Decorated Duck in La Jolla, and Moore’s arts center in Escondido.
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Methods Precis
September 1, 2026
Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive real-time method of recording neural activity.
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