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Architecture and the architect’s profession are today facing a huge challenge: they need to stop being seen as a problem and start being seen as a solution. Spain’s new Law of Architecture and Quality in the Built Environment may be just the instrument to reverse this situation.
But to do that, architecture needs to be vindicated and showcased as a tool of social transformation at the service of society.
We need to change the all-encompassing conceptual notion of “Architecture with a capital A” to one of “architectures with a small ‘a’”, a plural term which recognises all the different facets of our profession’s diverse, complex, ever-changing reality.
In our opinion, therefore, it’s vital that the new law should address the following issues currently being raised by today’s new professional and disciplinary realities:
In short, for architecture to stop being seen as a problem and start being seen as a solution, we vindicate the different types of architecture that are receptive to the conditions imposed by reality and which place people and Nature at the heart of the creative process. That way, it’s possible for us to recover the social value of our profession and highlight its role as a tool for collectively transforming and improving our surroundings.