Architects' Accelerator Blog
The 5 Reasons AXP is Failing Architect Candidates - No 1
By: David Clarke Published on: 07/06/2025I'm listing the top 5 reasons the AXP is failing architecture licensing candidate in that effort, and it's failing architecture firms too. Among the 5 reasons the AXP is failing architect licensure candidates, Number 1 is the AXP is too general. Rather than recording the individual tasks, we're recording areas.
Measure of Competency - Weighted Experience
By: David Clarke Published on: 06/06/2025There's an emphasis on what we actually do over other things that we can do. It starts even in education, and continues when you get into practice. We're essentially weighting the experience that you're expected to get and be competent in saying this is more important than this by adding more hours.
Measure of Competency - Aligning Tasks to Competency Standards
By: David Clarke Published on: 06/06/2025I've gone through all of the AXP tasks and made a first pass, sort of assignment of where I think that task would align with which competency.
Measure of Competency - Competency Standard & AXP - Grassroots Effort
By: David Clarke Published on: 06/06/2025How does the Competency Standard stack up against the experience tasks in the AXP. I went through all of the experience tasks and kind of assigned them to competencies. Now I'm going through in a more methodical way, and I realized that this is something that you can participate in.
