tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5521512255046495937.post5662601365366259..comments2023-06-02T14:34:37.898+01:00Comments on archtech: Architect by the Grandfather Clausearchtechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09549936395879494484noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5521512255046495937.post-17219949187682757582011-01-16T02:28:32.724+00:002011-01-16T02:28:32.724+00:00I agree with all that you say but with one additio...I agree with all that you say but with one addition. I am caught between a rock and a hard place. I am an architectural technologist who through chance ended up working for himself some 13 years ago and although I call myself nothing but an arch.tech the public, solicitors etc. blindly refer to me as an architect.<br />The problem is that the riai have worked tirelessly at blocking the title architectural technologist being recognised while working at getting the Law Society to drop their acceptance of non acedemically qualified architects. <br />I dream of the day that I can put up an Architectural Technologist sign outside my door.<br />The IATGN looked promising for a few years but lack of any progress and obvious strong links with the RIAI meant that they went nowhere.<br />So for the time being I am all for the Architects Alliance work because they are the only group that are kind of representing my interests and professional qualification.<br />If only the IATGN with upwards of 15,000 members would realise the power they have in numbers alone and stand up and be counted.<br />The RIAI have their heads stuck in the sands of exorbitant fees for too long and don't realise that they have been giving away the old typical roles of the Architect one by one (costing to the QS, Surveying, PSDP etc etc.) and the Architectural Technologist is trained and equipped to handle all those tasks.<br />We AT's don't appear to have copped that we have become the pivotal link in the design team, from inception to project managing all the way to completion and signing off on the Architects headed paper.<br />Architects have become office managers, with design and building legal & contractual knowledge added in for good measure. How long before we realise what we have and we do as the Architects Alliance are doing with their small numbers.<br />Keep the faith!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com