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2006 10 12
Taking With One Hand, Giving Away With The Other
![]() Anderson Pisaniello sent me a note that deserves some attention. I just read that the City of Toronto international design competition for the revitalization of Nathan Phillips Square is open for any nationally or internationally registered professionals in the design field, what naturally includes foreign Architects living in Canada. Of course, local architects have long grumbled about the bureaucracy that is the OAA. Anderson's complaints join a long list of others. But he has a point. Why, as a profession, are we more than happy to bring in foreign, super-star architects to design some of our most important civic landmarks but when accrediting qualified, foreign architects we do everything possible to impede their acceptance? We all know the answer why. Protectionism. That truth does not make the hypocrisy of our professional agencies more palatable. Canadians have long lived in a trans-global business environment that is making innovative ideas available to cultures everywhere. The longer we continue to put barriers up to protect our profession locally the more likely it will be that our major building projects will go to foreign architects who have joined the fray of global competition and won. [email this story] Posted by R Ouellette on 10/12 at 12:03 PM
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