who spent 7 years in college be unable to do more than a person who spent 2 years in school and who has 5 years experience in a firm? Typically these people are draftsmen. They provide the manpower to produce many of the required drawings, details, sections, elevations and countless other pieces of documentation for projects. It is important to know who is ultimately responsible for these documents. That is the Architect. He or she has the duty and the responsibility to the client to provide the documents and oversee the construction of the building commissioned. What isn't important is how that person got to be in that position of responsibility. It isn't important to the client if that person recieved a degree from Notre Dame or Miami, Carnegie Mellon or Roger Williams. The client wants the architect to deliver documents that are accurate and meet all requirements set forth in a program. If the architect has a 5 year degree and completes IDP and passes the ARE, all well and good. If another architect went through the path of being a draftsman and through experience became eligible to sit for the ARE and passed it, that person too is an architect. Both licensed, both registered, both architects. The question of what we call those people who are not architects is simple, they are draftsmen, pure and simple. What school you went to means nothing. Just because you spent time in a classroom and another person spent time in an