Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA), formed in 1965, is an organisation for national and regional institutes representing

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. As such, under the

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, the association validates courses in architecture and convenes international boards to educational institutions to assess course components against set criteria. Its current membership list is 34 nations. Sir Robert Matthew

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served as the first President from 1965 to 1969. Vince Cassar is the present president of the organization. The CAA is a registered charity in the UK. In 2012 the UK's

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(RIBA) ceased (after many decades) to recognise CAA accreditation of Commonwealth architecture schools, after the CAA refused to grant 'significant' RIBA representation on its accreditation panels to inspect schools first-hand. At the time CAA validated 41 colleges, though only visited 15 of them beforehand. A five-day International Architectural Exhibition of the Commonwealth Association of Architects was held in

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in November 2013. It ran at the same time as the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The organisation held a two-day international summit in

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, in June 2015, to celebrate its 50th anniversary."Preparing for Commonwealth Association of Architects Golden Jubilee"
, ''The Sunday Times'' (Sri Lanka), 1 March 2015. Retrieved 20 March 2017.

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