Valencia : Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018.
489 p. : il.
ISBN 9788490487136
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Estudio y enseñanza / Arquitectura – Teoría
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72:378 REA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1128093671
Architecture schools in developed countries are educating more architects than ever. After graduation, a vast, diverse and exciting labor market awaits them. The traditional professional practice in architecture that we used to know was configured after the armed conflicts in the first half of the twentieth century. A whole continent had been devastated by the world wars and the urgency to rebuild it, mainly to provide dwelling and to restore infrastructures, marked a way of practicing architecture for many years. Those decades were followed by others of economic boom and subsequent population growth. By then, practicing architects faced a meaningful amount of commissions focused essentially in new buildings while they lightly give way in urban planning and other traditional architectural issues. That scenario defined the expectations of our students for many years and became a risky synonymous of success among their peers.
This model is being nowadays substantially complemented by new professional tasks as a result of the imposed period of reflection propitiated by the economic circumstances of the beginning of the present century. The global economic crisis hit especially the western economies. Many European countries such as Spain, with a crisis in the construction sector which lasted from 2007 to 2017, saw how their increasing amount of practicing architects were forced to reinvent themselves and the practice of architecture itself. Contemporary architects are now becoming aware of which jobs they can undertake beyond the habitual ones. Perhaps this recently recovered awareness of our capacities might be accepted as one of the few positive legacies of these tough times. But architects are also becoming aware of how society should change in order to avoid committing the same mistakes from the past, and especially of architecture’s leadership in these changes.
This model is being nowadays substantially complemented by new professional tasks as a result of the imposed period of reflection propitiated by the economic circumstances of the beginning of the present century. The global economic crisis hit especially the western economies. Many European countries such as Spain, with a crisis in the construction sector which lasted from 2007 to 2017, saw how their increasing amount of practicing architects were forced to reinvent themselves and the practice of architecture itself. Contemporary architects are now becoming aware of which jobs they can undertake beyond the habitual ones. Perhaps this recently recovered awareness of our capacities might be accepted as one of the few positive legacies of these tough times. But architects are also becoming aware of how society should change in order to avoid committing the same mistakes from the past, and especially of architecture’s leadership in these changes.
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