An architect is a professional devoted to design, a creator who manages space, resources and functionality to materialize ideas, taking into account human needs. The architect can canalize emotions, sensations and feelings using technic.
Architecture is created in group, and it embaraces almost all fields: art, music, society, law… Because of this, the architect must be a sensible, cult person, added to a sociologist and communicator.
Learning to see
- delve into what we look at in order to turn it into thought
- get used to analyze what surrounds us
- drawing as a process of interpretation of reality
- travelling: acquire new points of view
- reading: deepens ideas
- taking photographs: create a unique gaze
- Films: comopsed of light, movement, space; just like architecture
Learning to think
Expressing our thoughts finding the adequate language
Being critical, suspicious, curious
Collective thinking, sharing ideas
Learning to create
understand the user’s needs
understand the composition rules of architecture
understand the materials and their possibilities
understand the construction technics
constructive viability
The practice of architecture
In Spain, this profession is regulated by the ‘Ley 38/1999, de 5 de Noviembre, de Ordenación de la Edificación’.
Some common forms of employment are
- self employed (own office)
- work for others (other architects, public work…)
the architects main areas of work are building, urban planning, interior design, teaching, valuations…