Ethical and professional standards for interns in A+D practices
Ethical and professional standards for interns in A+D practices
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Many jobs require, or expect, some form of apprenticeship as a sort of interim between academic training and being fully qualified for the profession. Whether we call them apprentices, interns or articling students, in each of these cases, the individual expects to be paid.
However, in many settings, interns are unpaid, leading to an inequitable playing field. According to a
Forbes 2018 article, people of colour, LGBTQ and other marginalized people are less likely to be able to afford to work for free to gain work experience. While work experience is valuable, an exception in the Ontario Employment Standards Act (ESA) notes that unpaid internship is illegal, unless “the person providing the training derives little, in any, benefit from the activity of the individual while he or she is being trained.” This is, arguably, subject to interpr
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The architect who owns the mangled Magee House has been fighting to have his working papers reinstated, with the courts recently delivering him a win as the heritage building in Hintonburg still faces an uncertain future.
A divisional court decision issued in March didn’t force the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) to reinstate Ovidio Sbrissa’s certificate of practice, but he believes the provincial regulator for the profession has no choice after a three-judge panel set aside the OAA’s decision.
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The Globe and Mail Published April 6, 2021
Canadian Housing Design Council Awards
Awards season, with all of its requisite pomp and circumstance – and again this year with auditoriums strangely silent – has come and gone. And as much as I stood and cheered for Messrs. Levy and Ms. O’Hara (I have been an SCTV fan since I was a single-digit lad), the general rethink on how awards are distributed has me thinking about my wheelhouse.
I have a little experience in this area. On two separate occasions I served as juror for the Ontario Association of Architects (the OAA is the regulatory body that licenses architects in the province), I have served for the City of Toronto’s William Greer Built Heritage Award, a few years ago I had oodles of fun judging “Canstruction” – where architectural firms build things using cans of food that are then donated to food banks – and, wearing my other professional hat, have judged radio commercials more than once.
Developing Interests
Developing Interests
Architects who work as developers owning, financing, designing and sometimes even acting as the builder for projects take calculated risks to deliver rewarding projects for their communities and themselves.
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“Show me a wealthy architect,” architect Lloyd Hunt once quipped to his class at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, “and I’ll show you a developer.”
The profits of developers can seemingly outstrip an architect’s fees on a project. But for architects, there’s a way to reap the financial rewards of development by becoming the developer.
The rewards go beyond potential financial gains, though. Architects who enter the development arena are often aiming to make modest, but important improvements to a neighbourhood or city that they know well. They’re gaining valuable knowledge about building from a client-and-owner perspective that feeds back into their architectural practice.
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