Foreign-trained architects help build a better Canada

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Archiseek / Canada / News / 2008 / January 16

As we all know, Canada is an extremely multicultural country, enriched by people and cultures from all over the planet. What many do not realize is that each and every year, there are as many individuals with training in architecture arriving in Canada from abroad as there are students graduating with a professional degree from our 10 Canadian accredited University Schools of Architecture. Add to that the fact that a third of our Canadian architecture graduates leave the country to seek experience and adventure, and you have what presents an enormous challenge to the architecture profession. Last year the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) held a roundtable on the integration of foreign-trained professionals with the provincial and territorial associations of architects and ultimately hired a consultant to undertake a study to determine the nature and extent of the situation.

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