ZULUETA ARCHITECTURE

My video of How To Become A Licensed Architect in Canada is one of my popular videos in you tube. I get queries regularly from students and architects with an international background interested in getting  Canadian accreditation and license. I usually lead them to check the CACB website - Canadian Architectural Certification Board . CACB is the first point of contact for graduates of architecture in Canada and abroad, who want to become licensed architects in Canada. For an architect trained outside of Canada who are interested in becoming licensed in Canada, there are 2 ways to go about it- it's either you go through an internship process and take the registration exams or you can try the BEFA, Broadly Experienced Foreign Architect Program. The BEFA is a process where your experience will be evaluated  by the program, and their is an interview afterwards. When I was looking into getting registered as an architect, the BEFA program did not exist at that time. ...

How to Become a Licensed Architect in Canada  is a question I get asked a lot given that I got my professional training outside of Canada.  I was a licensed architect in the Philippines prior to coming to Canada. I get fairly regular queries from internationally trained architects, from different backgrounds,  who are close to  migrating to Canada or architects that are already in Canada and needs some insight in getting their architectural license, accreditation and the Canadian experience. Architectural Job First things first, it would be best to get employed working as an architectural designer in an architectural firm. When I was a newcomer to Canada, I landed in British Columbia and that was where I started to look for work. It was very hard to find work in my field at that time. I think it was a combination of lack of Canadian experience plus the economy was not too good. Looking back that was almost 20 years ago now, year 2000. After assessing my si...