Brief History and Role
The Bylaws for the Regime and the Governance of the Spanish Orders of Architects were approved through the Decree dated 13 June 1931.
CSCAE gathers all the Official Orders of Architects and their Autonomic Councils in Spain.
Inside its structure, UAPFE was created in 1985 as a coalition of each regional group of expert architects in the field of judicial or valuation procedures
Principal Activities
The High Council performs the following duties:
- Representation
- Regulation
- Coordination
- Organisation
All other activities that are of common and general interest for the profession
Principal Areas of Policy
Within its jurisdiction, the following are the essential purposes of the Higher Council in the practice of its functions pursuant to current legislation:
- Representing and defending the profession and its Orders and Autonomic Councils as a single unit.
- Coordinating the action of its members in the completion of its essential purposes and shared purposes as well as in its relations with service entities created, promoted or held by the Orders, the Autonomic Councils, or the Council itself
- Guaranteeing, in its own practice, and ensuring, at all times, the equality of treatment for all architects and their free practice of their profession in all Spain within the frame established pursuant to current legal provisions.
- Establishing the Code of Conduct for Architects within the frame of current regulations.
- Protecting the interests of consumers and users of architectural services.
Organisation
CSCAE gathers all the Official Orders of Architects and their Autonomic Councils in Spain.
According to its General Bylaws, the bodies of the Higher Council are the General Assembly, the Plenary Session and the President.
Membership
CSCAE has 48.000 members. Among them, 790 are individual qualified valuers.
Publications
CSCAE, jointly with AEVIU and CGATE, translated and published the Spanish version of EVS 2020.
