This week ARB sent a delegation to New York with the Department for Business and Trade.
We discussed ARB’s routes to UK registration for internationally-qualified architects – in particular, the Mutual Recognition Agreement we signed with our counterparts in the US National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), and explored further opportunities for improving routes into the profession. We had useful meetings with the New York State Boards for Architecture and Landscape Architecture, RIBA, Bespoke Careers, The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Foster + Partners.
We also hosted a Reception at the British Consulate residence that brought leaders together from the architecture sector and wider business to explore how the mutual recognition of qualified architects between the US and UK has created new opportunities for trans-Atlantic cooperation, professional mobility, and trade.
Thank you to everyone who met with us, including Alan Gogbashian, Deputy Trade Commissioner for North America – British Consulate in New York and Michael Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB)
A huge thank you to Abraham Thomas, Daniel Brodsky Curator, Modern Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts, for leading a fascinating private tour of the exhibition Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art.