No. 7The periphery

The understanding of the breadth of the disciplinary field is as necessary today as it has always been, although perhaps we are currently somewhat more sensitive to it. The tasks, pre and post project, or parallel to the project, are also professional tasks. Many architects and architects project our environment from the political sphere promoting laws, decrees, regulations, plans and ordinances. Since the administration, many people have worked for a long time so that a piece of land is qualified as a building site or not. Sites that have a socio-economic context that has been previously decided by many other people, not to mention the habitability regulations that condition and encourage the design possibilities of the buildings.

In this context, this issue of the VAD magazine, under the slogan The periphery, calls for reflections, articles and experiences that open our eyes to what “it is always happening” but whose echo has been lost in the noise that surrounds us and that, usually, official architecture has been relegating to the margins.