Complaint Review Summaries

This Complaint Review Summary illustrates the need for architects to be diligent in managing detail, vigilant in supervising a project and professional in dealing with their clients.
January 2005

Document Type: PDF (283 KB)

This Complaint Review Summary deals with a complaint that an architect was unskilled and unprofessional in the handling of numerous aspects of a renovation and condominium conversion project.
March 2005

Document Type: PDF (316 KB)

This Complaint Review Summary represents an example of the serious problem in the profession of affixing a seal and signature to documents and drawings with limited project involvement.
June 2005

Document Type: PDF (286 KB)

This Complaint Review Summary illustrates the need for architects to be diligent in managing demanding clients and realistic in recognizing deficiencies in their own practice resources.
May 2007

Document Type: PDF (282 KB)

This Complaint Review Summary demonstrates the need for architects to ensure that they have the expertise required to complete work that they take on, and to be diligent in the controlled use of their professional seal.
November 2009

Document Type: PDF (286 KB)

This Complaint Review Summary involves an attempt by one AAA member to discredit fellow architects and undermine their reputation in the eyes of a major client.
February 2011

Document Type: PDF (284 KB)

This Complaint Review Summary is based on the failure of an individual to respond to directives from the AAA to return his emblems of registration and refrain from holding himself out as an architect following cancellation of his members.
August 2011

Document Type: PDF (284 KB)

This Complaint Review Summary emphasizes the importance of ensuring that the scope of a contract for architectural services does not rely on sub-consultants or other contractors who are not accountable to the architect.
December 2015

Document Type: PDF (285 KB)

This Complaint Review Summary provides a clear example of conduct that damages the integrity of the profession.
December 2017

Document Type: PDF (210 KB)

This case emphasizes the ethical and professional obligations of a Registered Architect to supervise a project as the designated, authorized entity.
February 2020

Document Type: PDF (196 KB)

This Complaint Review Summary is based on the failure of an individual to provide a minimum level of oversight, management, or control of architectural services over the authorized entity and the failure to enter into a written agreement for professional services.
April 2021

Document Type: PDF (267 KB)

This case shows the importance for members to be truthful in their interactions with the AAA and to potential employers, to ensure they are entering into arrangements with entities entitled to practice architecture, and to serve as a reminder that regulated members are expected to cooperate and participate in the discipline process.

Document Type: PDF (276 KB)

This Complaint Review Summary illustrates the need for the architect of record to work directly with clients under a written agreement and not provide services through an unauthorized entity. Being an architect of record requires personal supervision, direction and control, particularly during the construction phase.

Document Type: PDF (207 KB)