Within just 10 months of graduating from Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) in 2021, Tate Lauderdale and Hunter Swatek have completed the architecture licensure process—a rigorous and, for some, barrier-filled undertaking that, on average, takes candidates seven years to complete, according to the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards (NCARB). Lauderdale and Swatek, described in an Auburn news release as being “friends and coworkers” who first met their freshman year, were both 23 years old when they became among the youngest licensed architects in the United States. The average age of licensure candidates beginning the process is 29.
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