Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España
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The Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE), is the higher council of Architect
s in Spain
, and is the most established professional body
of Spanish architects, located in the Paseo de la Castellana, Madrid
. The current president is Carlos Hernández Pezzi.
The foundation of the CSCAE was initialized by the council of architects in 1929, established by law by government decree of June 13, 1931, which was ratified by the Spanish constitutional court on November 4, 1931.
The CSCAE includes 30 regional councils today, originally it had the following six regional councils:
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
s in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, and is the most established professional body
Professional body
A professional association is usually a nonprofit organization seeking to further a particular profession, the interests of individuals engaged in that profession, and the public interest.The roles of these professional associations have been variously defined: "A group of people in a...
of Spanish architects, located in the Paseo de la Castellana, Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
. The current president is Carlos Hernández Pezzi.
The foundation of the CSCAE was initialized by the council of architects in 1929, established by law by government decree of June 13, 1931, which was ratified by the Spanish constitutional court on November 4, 1931.
The CSCAE includes 30 regional councils today, originally it had the following six regional councils:
- Council of the provinces A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense, Pontevedra, Oviedo, León, Zamora, Salamanca and provinces A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense, Pontevedra, Oviedo, León, Zamora, Salamanca and Palencia, located in LeónLeón, SpainLeón is the capital of the province of León in the autonomous community of Castile and León, situated in the northwest of Spain. Its city population of 136,985 makes it the largest municipality in the province, accounting for more than one quarter of the province's population...
- Council of the provinces Álava, Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa and Navarra, located in BilbaoBilbaoBilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...
- Council of the provinces Lleida, Girona, Barcelona, Tarragona, Huesca, Zaragoza, Teruel, Logroño and Baleares, located in LleidaLleidaLleida is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital city of the province of Lleida, as well as the largest city in the province and it had 137,387 inhabitants , including the contiguous municipalities of Raimat and Sucs. The metro area has about 250,000 inhabitants...
- Council of the provinces Santander, Burgos, Soria, Segovia, Ávila, Madrid, Toledo, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Cáceres, Badajoz and Valladolid, located in Madrid
- Council of the provinces Castellón, Valencia, Alicante, Albacete and Murcia, located in ValenciaValencian CommunityThe Valencian Community is an autonomous community of Spain located in central and south-eastern Iberian Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Valencia...
- Council of the provinces Huelva, Sevilla, Córdoba; Jaén, Granada, Almería; Málaga, Cádiz, Marruecos and Canarias, located in Sevilla