Becoming Architects Canada / Devenir Architect Canada is a new non-profit advocacy group for interns, others on the path to architectural licensure, and recent licensees, created by former RAIC Emerging Practitioners and CASA members.
While this group was officially launched in April 2021, their journey began more than six years ago when intern architect representatives from Architectural Associations across Canada met at the 2014 RAIC Festival to discuss interns? concerns with the IAP program.

?What we discovered is we all shared the same concerns and could learn a lot from what each regulator was doing with respect to intern support, but we suffered from a disconnect from each other. A few of us met again at the CACB conference on ?Educating Future Architects? in 2014, where we determined that a national advocacy group for intern architects was needed,? says co-founder, Ksenia Eic.
After the Conference, the organization set out to create such a group by putting together a grant application to the RAIC for the formation of a national intern advocacy organization. Becoming Architects Canada was awarded the ?College of Fellows Centennial Fund for Intern/Intern Architects? at the 2015 RAIC Festival, and the RAIC Emerging Practitioners Committee was officially launched in 2016.
?As members of the RAIC Emerging Practitioners Committee we accomplished a great deal, carrying out vital research, disseminating information to our membership, organizing design competiti...