You've got your degree and now you want to become an architect or urban planner? Register as a junior architect or junior urban planner and you're off and running. After two years you will be entitled to use the protected professional title of architect, interior designer, landscape architect or urban planner. More information can be found in the Guidelines for junior architects and for junior urban planners (the guidelines have not yet been adapted to the new "term junior architect").
We ask for your understanding that we only provide this information in English but not the application procedure. Architects and urban planners must be fluent in German in their respective fields, also when dealing with authorities. This is a prerequisite for registration and will be checked during the registration process.
Information for special cases
If you wish to register as an architect and urban planner, you can complete your junior period in both disciplines at the same time. This can shorten the period to 3 years instead of 4.
Further information (German only; in the context of junior membership, but the requirements also apply to full membership)
In addition to two years’ professional experience, a completed university degree is a prerequisite for registration. The university degree does not necessarily have to be consecutive, i.e. built upon one another. If you have accumulated at least 240 ECTS credits in more than one subject area, you may be eligible for registration in two subject areas.
The phenomenon of non-sequential degree programmes is particularly common in urban planning. For interested urban planners with non-sequential degree programmes, Information Sheet 360 provides further details.
