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Start your professional career as junior architect or junior urban planner

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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.

Apply for registration as a junior architect or junior urban planner as soon as you graduate and start your professional career. Only then can we take your professional experience into account from day one.

Why becoming a junior architect or junior urban planner?

A membership as junior architect or junior urban planner allows you to benefit from the services of the Kammer even if you have not yet completed your training as an architect or urban planner.

  • You can take part in training courses specifically for junior architects and junior urban planners at our professional training institute.
  • All the Kammer's advisory services are available to you (technical advice, legal advice, salary surveys and recommendations, etc.).
  • The path to full membership is easier.
  • Our Kleinanzeigen can help you find a job.
  • Pension scheme membership in the Versorgungswerk

Many benefits of the membership at a glance. Just for a fee of € 62 a year.

 

Before your journey as junior architect or junior urban planner

1st Step: Apply!

Submit your application as soon as you start your professional activity, because your practical experience can only be counted if you are registered. Complete the application form (Antrag auf Mitgliedschaft als Junior-Architekt:in bzw. Junior-Stadtplaner:in; German only), sign it, and post it to the Architektenkammer. Once your documents have been checked and you meet the registration requirements, you're ready to go! Make sure the documents are complete:

During your times junior architect or junior urban planner

2nd Step: Gain and document practical experience

Your practice phase begins with your registration. Over a period of two years, you should spend at least three months working in each of the professional areas of your main field of study. You can use the HOAI Leistungsphasen as a rough guide. A registered architect or urban planner must supervise you and sign your evidence of activity. Make sure it is detailed. We need to see how long you worked on each project and what your independent tasks were. This is the only way we can assess whether you have carried out all the professional tasks during your internship. This is required by the Architektengesetz (Architects Act).

If you change employers during your time as junior architect or junior urban planner, fill in a first activity report and have it signed by your previous employer.

3rd Step: Attend professional education courses and provide proof of credits

After two years as a junior architect or junior urban planner (if you work full-time), you should be able to prove that you have completed 40 hours of professional further training. Valid courses are recognised by the Architektenkammer. You can find out whether and how many points get for the course. We recommend visiting professional courses designed for junior architects and junior urban planners from our institute IFBau. If your time as junior extends, for example because you work part-time, eight additional hours of professional education are required for each additional year as junior architect or junior urban planner. More information can be found in the Praxishinweis zur Fort- und Weiterbildungsordnung (Practical Information on Professional Training Regulations,  German only).

4th Step: Done! Registration as a full member

Congratulations! Now that you have successfully completed your junior membership, you can register as an architect, interior designer, landscape designer or town planner. Find out more about the application process here.

After completing gathering practical experience

Checklist for your application for registration as a junior architect or junior urban planner

Please send your documents by post and include the following

  • The completed Antrag (registration form, German only)
  • Please check that you have signed the application form
  • Proof of a university degree with at least 4 years of standard study  (Bachelor's + Master's or 8 semester Bachelor's)
    • Certified copies of your diplomas and transcripts (Bachelor's and Master's).
    • If not in German: certified translations.

Address of the Kammer:
Architektenkammer Baden-Württemberg
Eintragungsabteilung
Danneckerstr. 54
70182 Stuttgart
Germany

30.04.2026