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From: Architexturez <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:07:03 +0530
"It's called solicitation-once you project yourself as an architect or
offer yourself as capable of performing the work of an architect," Alli
explains. "Such a practice is prohibited under the law."
Apart from giving media practitioners reason to pause and verify their
sources' claims, the issue is bigger than it seems since it also
concerns would-be Filipino architects studying abroad, as well as
foreign architects hired by prominent families and multinational
companies to do a number of projects here either as consultants or
"architects-of-record."
How does the board deal with such individuals and situations without
appearing biased against, say, Calma, who, apart from having the
advantage of working for one of the country's best architectural firms,
also studied architecture abroad?
What does it take to be able to legally practice architecture in the
Philippines? Won't education in the best schools abroad as well as an
impressive body of work suffice, or make up for a person's inability to
take the board exam here?
cont'd....
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