Your Path to Becoming an Architect:
Experience Requirements

Step 2

Once you are certified by the CACB, you then apply for appointment as an Intern Architect with the OAA. All Intern Architects in Ontario must complete the Intern Architect Program to fulfil the OAA's work experience requirements. Learn more about the Intern Architect Program.

To become an Intern Architect, you must find an architect who agrees to be your mentor, and you must complete the Canadian Experience Record Book.

All architects licensed by the OAA are eligible to be mentors. If you need help finding a mentor, please contact the OAA through the OAA website or find the mailing address in the Contacts section of this website.

Your international work experience may be considered toward the experience requirements. Record in the Canadian Experience Record Book (CERB) all your international work experience gained outside of Canada and the USA so that it may be considered towards the experience requirements. You must complete 5,600 hours of work experience to fulfil the experience requirements. Of these hours, 940 hours must be in Ontario in an architectural practice under the personal supervision and direction of an architect licensed by the OAA or a retired member of the OAA. Also, these 940 hours must be completed within the three years period immediately prior to submitting your application for Licence. If you use all or some of your experience gained outside of Canada or the USA to meet the experience requirements, you must attend an interview with the OAA's Experience Requirements Committee.

Related Work Experience

You may work in an architectural office in Ontario without having CACB certification and without being appointed as an Intern Architect with the OAA, but only under the personal supervision and direction of an architect licensed by the OAA who has a Certificate of Practice. However, if you plan to use this work experience to fulfill OAA's experience requirements, you must obtain certification of your education from the CACB.Then you must apply to the OAA to become an Intern Architect, find a mentor who is an architect licensed by the OAA or a Retired Member of the OAA, and submit your work experience for review within the time frame outlined in the Intern Architect Program Manual.

Find more information about the OAA's Intern Architect Program.

Related Fees

These fees are in Canadian dollars and are for 2010. These fees will be subject to the 13% Harmonized Sales Tax.

Annual Intern Architect Fee (year 1 to year 4) Annual Intern Architect Fee (year 5+)

$154.00 + tax $808.00 + tax