Although each state and territorial jurisdiction regulates its own standards and requirements for professional registration, each defines the architect similarly. For instance, North Carolina law defines an architect as "a person who is duly licensed to practice architecture" and a license as "a certificate of registration issued by the (North Carolina) Board (of Architecture) recognizing the individual named in the certificate as meeting the requirements for registration under this Chapter." States and territories issue licenses to applicants who have met all the requirements - by education, internship and/or by examination - to practice architecture. The title "Architect" is therefore a title regulated by statute.
States also require architects to renew their licenses on a regular basis. Each state maintains a roster of architects licensed to practice in its jurisdiction. From time to time architects who have been licensed fail to pay their annual dues, in which case their registration lapses. Most jurisdictions permit architects to renew by paying past annual dues.
This directory contains only licensed architects.
For the purposes of the directory "African American" means African American by descent. We also include architects who have emigrated to America from other countries such as Jamaica, Haiti, and Nigeria and who are licensed in one of the fifty states. We have included African American architects who reside in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands; we have included architects who reside on other Caribbean islands so long as they hold licenses from one of the fifty states.
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We set out to prepare the first directory of African American Architects in late 1989. Our goal was to substantiate with statistics what we and others had concluded on the basis of anecdote: that African American architects considered themselves underrepresented in a largely "white gentleman's profession."
The Directories of Diverse Architects and Designers is the child of the Directory of African-American Architects, and is a project of NOMA, the National Organization of Minority Architects. The DDAD's goal is to catalog, educate and enlighten.
