AILA Membership Information

Use of acronyms and nomenclature

Dec 2008  

Who can call themselves a Registered Landscape Architect and the acronyms used to identfy a registered member?

What acronyms are used by Registered members?

Full members or professionally recognised AILA members are called Registered Landscape Architects.

The acronym used after the members name is AILA; or FAILA for fellows:

eg: Joanne Jones AILA

Jeremy Johnson FAILA

or a member may wish to spell out that they are Registered:

Jenny Johnson  AILA Registered Landscape Architect 

Jeremy Johnson FAILA  Registered Landscape Architect

or on your business card you may set it out like this:

Jenny Johnson  AILA
Registered Landscape Architect 

Jeremy Johnson FAILA 
Registered Landscape Architect

These acronyms were approved to be used from June 2007.

One last option and additional acronym is the optional of using PP (after the AILA) if the member is a former National President (Past President).

When did the changes happen to the nomenclature for AILA full Members?

From July 2007, those full members who were using the term 'Associates' of the AILA (AAILA) were re-classified as Registered Landscape Architects (AILA or FAILA).

Those who were already Registered Landscape Architects remain at their current status.

The term Associate (AAILA) is to be no longer used as the nomenclature for full AILA Membership. 

The acronym to be used is AILA.

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