Welcome! The responsibility of the North Carolina Board of Architecture and Registered Interior Designers is to safeguard the life, health, property, and welfare of the people of North Carolina and to ensure that those individuals licensed to practice architecture and registered interior designer in this state are duly qualified.
Any person may file with the Board, a charge of unprofessional conduct, negligence, incompetence, dishonest practice or other misconduct against an architect or registered interior designer. Any person may file a complaint against an unlicensed individual for a single act of unauthorized or illegal practice or representing himself or herself to the public as an architect or registered interior designer.
If you have any questions please contact Cathe Evans, Executive Director at 984-328-1161.
G.S. 150B-21.3A requires state agencies to review their existing rules every 10 years in a process called “Periodic Review of and Expiration of Existing Rules.”
As such, the North Carolina Board of Architecture & Registered Interior Designers has initiated readoption of the following rules, pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A.
Readoption with substantive changes:
21 NCAC 02 .0106, .0108, .0109, .0401, .0402, .0403, .0404, .0405, .0406, .0501, .0601, .0603, .0604, .0605, .0609, .0610, .0701, .0702, .0703, .0704, .0705, .0903
Readoption without substantive changes:
21 NCAC 02 .0101, .0107, .0201, .0203, .0204, .0205, .0206, .0210, .0213, .0214, .0215, .0217, .0302, .0303, .0306, .0307, .0901, .0904, .0905, .0906, .0907, .0908, .0909, .0910
Repeal through readoption:
21 NCAC 02 .0607, .0608
The Board will receive written public comment on the proposed readoption of these rules between October 24, 2025 and January 30, 2026. Written public comments may be submitted via email to Cathe Monte Carlo, the Board’s Rulemaking Coordinator, at cathe@ncbarch.org or via US Mail to the Board office, located at 434 Fayetteville Street, Suite 2005 Raleigh, NC 27609.
The Board also will receive public comment in a public hearing scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on December 16, 2025 through the following videoconference meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85840836521?pwd=ZfgAFWMAQej8fWncW4tZYyjg51vs59.1&fr om=addon
Meeting ID: 858 4083 6521 Passcode: 394893
Attachments: North Carolina Board of Architecture & Registered Interior Designers rules
The latest edition of the Board newsletter Columns is found here
Effective Immediately the Board Phone Numbers are as follows:
Main Number 919-268-7293
Cathe M. Monte Carlo-Evans, Executive Director 919-268-1610
Julie L. Piatek, Director of Administration 984-920-7522
Tyler Barrick, Director of CE/Firm Compliance 919-268-5273
The January 2025 Issue of Columns, the Newsletter of the NC Board of Architecture and Registered Interior Designers is now available.
Some highlights include:
The Board has joined with the AIA-NC to offer a FREE CE opportunity. See the special November 2024 Edition of Columns for more information.
2024-11 November Special CE Newsletter