Interview to Jordi Ludevid, president of the Upper Council of the Schools of Architects
Like president of the CSCAE, which is the real situation of the Spanish architects in these moments?
The sector of the edificación has been one of the most affected sectors by the economic difficulties of our country, and whose effects are especially intense in the architecture. It is necessary to do a deep reflection on the reasons and decisions that have carried us to the current situation to be able to propose solutions that, in the short term, resolve this unsustainable situation. However, speak of our future, and of the economic and social model that want to build on a long-term basis, is indispensable.
In these moments, the greater part of the young architects are seeing forced to emigrate if they want to exert the profession for which have been formed. Many of them are conscious of the difficulty that will have in being able to return, once that the professional career begins to develop in another country. The architects something more greater, in front of the lack of professional commissions in Spain, are treating of internacionalizar his services, with a personal effort and important professional. In both cases, is necessary a greater support, no only from the school organisations, but from the public servicys.
What measured proposes the CSCAE to surpass this coyuntura so complicated?
From the CSCAE, have defended that the new sector of the edificación has to base in the put in value of the heritage built by means of the urban regeneration and the rehabilitation of the edificaciones with criteria of quality and sustainability.
The recent approval of the Preliminary draft of Law of Regeneration, Rehabilitation and Urban Renewal, at present in processing, supposes an opportunity to tackle this question, on which will follow working during the parliamentary formality to reach consensora between all the agents involved.
The proposal of this Upper Council is that the rehabilitation was tackled with an integral architectural approach, based in criteria of quality, innovation and sustainability. All this has to materialise in an instrument that coordinate all the performances and do visible, to the citizens, the level of quality that his building purchases after being rehabilitated.
From another punto and of face to the activation of the sector, have to bet by measures that facilitate the work of professionals and avoid his precarización through systems of estimate of costs for the professional activity or regulations of contests of architecture that, in different phases, value the quality of the technical proposals, in addition to economic questions. The achievement of these aims would allow us consolidate a fabric of stable professional companies and with high level of competition, no only in the national field but in the international.
Finally, are conscious of the situation of the professionals in the short term and treat to support them in his internationalisation or in the research of places of international work.
The experts affirm that the internationalisation is one of the big roads to face up to the current crisis. They are the Spanish architects prepared to bet for accessing to other markets?
The fault of labour expectations has forced to emigrate to a lot of architects. This situation, dramatic, have to turn it into opportunity to do visible the values of the Spanish architects. But, for this, have to articulate political public of support for the export of the services and the materials and products tied to the sector of the edificación.
The CSCAE bets, of firm way, by the internationalisation of the services of architecture and by the consolidation of the Mark Spain of architecture in the outside. The Spanish architects are one of the basic constitutive elements of the Mark Spain, contributing like this to that the group of our economy benefit of his image and of his excellent provision accredited in front of the world and in front of Europe.
In this sense, Construmat, that celebrates of the 21 to 24 May in Fira of Barcelona, has bet decididamente by this road. Which opinion deserves him?
Think that is a very hit decision taking into account the nature and projection of Construmat like meeting point of the world of the construction to international level, that facilitates to the companies the access to new opportunities of business in the external market.
In these moments, stages like Construmat result indispensable for the reflation, no only of the sector of the construction, but of the economy to world-wide level.
Construmat Also has wanted to give his support to the architects, creating the first edition of the Building Solutions World Congress, an evento in which it wants to put of self-evident that the profession has options of future. It thinks that initiatives like this are useful for the professionals of the sector?
Without any doubt. It is moment to look to in front and bet by those roads of future that contribute hope to the sector as they are it the sustainability, the rehabilitation and the R&D. It is necessary to produce a deep reflection that contribute the answers that allow us face these new challenges and what better stage that this congress, in the field of Construmat, to cause it.
Finally, which stage of future contemplates for the architecture so much of our country as of our immediate surroundings?
As it commented at the beginning of the interview, the architecture goes through a moment of crisis increased by the real-estate stop that is suffering our country, what will change the projection of the model and will allow him bet by a future that sure will be, so much to national level like international, in the rehabilitation, the energetic efficiency, the sustainability, the paisajismo and the urban planning and the international projection, of forced fulfillment, taking into account the global society in which we live.
