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Beginning of Licensure NCARB’s Formation Creating NCARB The Certificate History Leadership Regions Committees and Volunteers Staff Pillars of Licensure Education Experience Examination Positioning for the Future Technology and Data Program Alignment Collateral Engagement NCARB Today Let’s Go Further Registration Boards Beginning of Licensure NCARB’s Formation Creating NCARB The Certificate History Leadership Regions Committees and Volunteers Staff Pillars of Licensure Education Experience Examination Positioning for the Future Technology and Data Program Alignment Collateral Engagement NCARB Today Let’s Go Further Registration Boards For the past 100 years, NCARB has been the foundation of the architecture profession. As we celebrate our Centennial, we’re taking the time to celebrate our accomplishments, highlight important milestones, and dive deeper into the Council’s past, present, and future. NCARB has a rich history, and we're excited to share it with you. DAVID L. HOFFMAN, FAIA 2019 NCARB PRESIDENT • KANSAS The Beginning Finding Our Footing Creating National Standards Evolution of Standards Going Digital Positioning for the future The Beginning 1897 Illinois becomes the first state to regulate the profession of architecture. 1919 On May 2, 1919, 15 architects from 13 states gathered to discuss forming an organization to set standards for licensure and facilitate licensure between states. The result: NCARB is founded. Founding Members: California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas. At the time NCARB was formed, it had to be a challenge back then to bring those first organizations together and then to draw other state boards into the fold. That is the most transcendent accomplishment of NCARB. It’s unique, was very important to do, and it was very well done.” GORDON E. MILLS 2009 NCARB PRESIDENT • IOWA Heretofore, it has been those members of the profession which wished to establish a professional standard, looking toward public safety as well, that headed the movement toward securing such legislation. … [It] now appears that the movement is beginning to take its proper position as a demand from the people.” THE WESTERN ARCHITECT 1907 FOUNDING FATHERS Emery Stanford Hall (Left), Emil Lorch (Right) Did you know? In 1922, only 27 percent of the country’s communities with over 5,000 people had any kind of building code. The Council is no longer an experiment. It is an established agency performing an effective work in a manner apparently satisfactory to its constituency.” EMERY STANFORD HALL NCARB EXECUTIVE • 1924 1920 Emil Lorch is elected NCARB’s first president. The Council adopts its first constitution and bylaws. 1921 NCARB sets up shop in Emery Stanford Hall’s Chicago office. In the first year, the Council processed 45 applicants seeking reciprocal licensure. Many states do not have license laws for architects, but their necessity is being more universally recognized. It is but a question of time when all states will have registration laws for architects, and it is to be hoped that these laws will be uniform throughout the nation and not capable of many interpretations.” Architecture and Building Design Magazine September 1921 1921 The first exams prepared by NCARB are given in Illinois to 19 architects—17 from Illinois and two from Iowa. There were two types of exams: the Standard Junior Exam for people seeking to get licensed and the Standard Senior Exam for architects who had been grandfathered into licensure wishing to practice in their states. All 19 applicants passed. 1922 NCARB members pass their first three resolutions, adding a past president position to the Board of Directors, approving the financial report, and approving a report from the Committee on Registration of Architects. Finding Our Footing 1930 32 jurisdictions have registration laws (30 states plus Hawaii and the Philippines). 1932 NCARB meets with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Education Committee and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) to discuss how the three organizations could work together. Representatives of AIA and ACSA were surprised at how much NCARB was able to accomplish in just over a decade. Mr. Hall stressed two chief questions to which the N.C.A.R.B. was struggling to find an answer. One was how to determine the list of accredited schools. The other was how to organize an internship for architects—a matter assuredly not so simple as in medicine. He added that the epitome of the Board's experience was that in 75 percent of cases, the first year's practical experience was wasted.” Minutes between aia, acsa, and ncarb joint conference • 1932 1934 NCARB implements a mentorship program to match graduates with an architect to guide them through the type of experience needed to earn a license. The Great Depression and World War II prevent the program from gaining momentum. The profession is pleased to call itself a learned profession. If this assumption is to be supported, then it is paramount that broad and high standards of qualifications shall be maintained.” EMERY STANFORD HALL NCARB EXECUTIVE • 1926 Did you know? While NCARB had helped architects get licensed in multiple jurisdictions since 1921, it formalized its record keeping process in 1930. Record holder #1 was McDonald Lovell from Illinois who was issued a Record in April 1930. He used his Record to get licensed in Wisconsin and Indiana. He would eventually get NCARB certified in 1946, so he could get licensed in Texas. A good many years ago we operated without anything, mostly in the red. We tried to carry on, and once in a while we would take up a little donation to help. In the thirties we just about gave up.” William Perkins 1938-39 NCARB President • Iowa • 1954 Did you know? Twenty schools were included in the first round of NAAB accreditations in 1945. The number had doubled by 1955, and more than tripled by 1965. Today, there are more than 150 programs accredited by the NAAB in over 130 institutions. NCARB VOLUNTEERS NCARB relies on the insight and knowledge of volunteers to develop its programs and initiatives—from architects to educators to public members. Watch now THE FIRST OHIO STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF ARCHITECTS FROM 1931 NCARB’s members are the boards of architecture in each jurisdiction. They are the bodies who issue licenses to practice architecture and are responsible for protecting the health, safety, and welfare of the public. Learn More 1938 NCARB formalizes its certification program. The first NCARB Certificate is issued to Nelson Spencer of Illinois. 1939 1938-39 NCARB President William Perkins of Iowa becomes NCARB’s secretary after the death of Emery Stanford Hall. As a result, the NCARB office moves to Chariton, Iowa. 1940 NCARB, AIA, and ACSA form the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) to handle accreditation of schools of architecture. 1942 NCARB creates a Board of Review to help the secretary handle planning Council meetings and reviewing appeals from applicants denied certification. 1945 NCARB releases its first newsletter. It seems obvious to me that the first step in the furtherance of any organization is a vigorous and vital publication.” WEEKLY NCARB BULLETIN JULY 1945 There could be no better demonstration of the need for this Council than what it is accomplishing and the work it is doing in these difficult times of the war emergency. It has been of assistance not only to the public and to the architectural profession, but to the federal government in the endeavor to select the proper men for important war work.” LOUIS J. GILL 1943 NCARB PRESIDENT • CALIFORNIA • 1943 Creating National Standards 1955 NCARB members vote to have students record their experience in a log book as part of the Architect-in-Training” program. Log books are poorly maintained and the program only lasts a couple of years....