President’s Message

They say that architecture is a profession that eats its own young. Sadly, the numbers seem to bear that out. At the 2011 AIBC Annual Conference this past June, members of AIBC Council’s New and Diverse Members Working Group presented on the theme of “The Elephant in the Room”. The presentation included statistics on membership, internship and registration patterns. The statistics revealed that, among other things, the average length of internship in B.C. is seven years, and that while women account for 50% of students of architecture, they only represent 11 % of registered architects…(Read More)