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"After the economic crisis of 2008, the construction sector is starting to see the light, with total revenues for the profession in Europe 12% higher than in 2014," says Miguel Ángel Alonso del Val, Full Professor of Projects and director of the University's School of Architecture. However, he stresses, the landscape since then has changed: "Freelancers have decreased by 15% and more and more architects are working in firms."

Starting in the 2018-2019 academic year, the University will launch a new Master's Degree University Degree in Architecture. The postgraduate program, which will be taught in Madrid with the partnership of academic staff of IESE, incorporates knowledge of business and human resources that respond to the current professional environment and "open a new horizon in the professional profile of student", says the director of the School.

The Master's Degree University Degree in Architecture responds to this paradigm shift, which forces the architect to be trained in other academic disciplines, and to develop qualities of entrepreneurship, leadership and social commitment, necessary in the world of business. In this way, it offers knowledge to dialogue with interlocutors in the productive sector and discovers the importance of management in the professional world.

The future of the profession

The Full Professor Alonso del Val considers that the crisis has revealed the inadequacy of the professional Structures to the new status. "The future of the profession," he says, "is beginning to be established around two Structures: those organized as service companies, i.e., programs of study with a certain size, a varied range of services and a great capacity for work in teams, and the small-sizedStructures highly technological and specialized. These two Structures are increasingly moving away from the 'multipurpose architect'".

The Master's Degree offers training for the architect to acquire skills that allow him/her to correctly define a project in addition to management and integration in work groups. Thus, 25% of the program is dedicated to teaching in business: entrepreneurship, human resources, negotiation, management of operations, management and management of project, leadership, marketing, management commercial, new technologies, work in team, financial accounting, etc.

 In addition to the theoretical training , the Master's Degree includes an internship of a minimum duration of three months, in Spain or abroad, in one of the more than 300 companies and programs of study with which the School of Architecture has agreements.

The University Master's Degree in programs of study of Architecture was presented last Tuesday, November 7, at 19:00 at the headquarters of high school of Architects of Madrid. Speakers included José María Ezquiaga, Dean of high school of Architects of Madrid; Ángel José Gómez Montoro and Miguel A. Alonso del Val, director of Campus Madrid, and director of School of Architecture, respectively, of the University.