Washington, DC—Thomas R. Wood, AIA, of Bozeman, MT, was installed on the National Council of
Architectural Registration Boards’ (NCARB) Board of Directors at its 89th Annual Meeting and Conference in
Pittsburgh, PA, last month. As the director for NCARB’s Region 5 (Central States Conference), Wood represents
the U.S. jurisdictions of Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The Central States Conference elected Wood director in April 2008 during its spring meeting in Omaha, NE.
First appointed to the Montana Board of Architects in 2001, Wood served as the board’s president from 2005-
2007. Prior to being elected director for Region 5, Wood served as the secretary/treasurer of the Central States
Conference in 2005 and as their regional chair from 2006-2008.
Wood’s involvement with NCARB began in the mid-1980s when he served as a grader and grading coordinator for
the site graphics section of the pencil-and-paper Architect Registration Examination® (ARE®). Since then, he has
served on numerous NCARB committees. Most recently, he was a member of the Regional Chairs Committee, the
Practice Analysis Core Group, the Intern Development Program (IDP) Employment Settings Task Force, the IDP
Advisory Committee, the IDP Employment Settings Task Force, and the EPC/Core Competency Linking Study
Task Force.
In 1972 Wood earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and in 1975 he
earned a Master of Architecture from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Currently he is the director of
Integrated Design Lab – Bozeman, where he helps architects and engineers design high-performance buildings.
Wood is also a professor of architecture at Montana State University. He holds the NCARB Certificate for national
reciprocity and is registered to practice in Colorado and Montana.
Wood has written and lectured extensively on daylighting, climate-responsive design, and integrated design. He’s
donated his architectural services to a variety of worthy organizations and won numerous awards for his affordable
housing and energy-efficient designs.
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards is committed to exemplary service and effective regulation to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. In order to achieve these goals, the Council develops and recommends standards to be required of an applicant for architectural registration; develops and recommends standards regulating the practice of architecture; provides to member boards a process for certifying the qualifications of an architect for registration; and represents the interests of member boards before public and private agencies. NCARB has also established guidelines for the reciprocal registration of architects in the United States and Canada and is engaged in similar discussions with several other countries under trade agreements negotiated by the United States government.
