The Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE), is the higher council of

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s Associations in

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, and is the only established

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of Spanish architects, located in the ''Paseo de la Castellana'',

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. The foundation of the CSCAE was initialized by the council of architects in 1929, established by law by government decree of June 13, 1931, which was ratified by the Spanish constitutional court ( es, Cortes Constituyentes) on November 4, 1931. The CSCAE includes 17 regional councils today, originally it had the following six regional councils: * Council of the provinces A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense, Pontevedra, Oviedo, León, Zamora, Salamanca and Palencia, located in León * Council of the provinces Álava, Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa and Navarra, located in

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* Council of the provinces Lleida, Girona, Barcelona, Tarragona, Huesca, Zaragoza, Teruel, Logroño and Baleares, located in Lleida * Council of the provinces Santander, Burgos, Soria, Segovia, Ávila, Madrid, Toledo, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Cáceres, Badajoz and Valladolid, located in Madrid * Council of the provinces Castellón, Valencia, Alicante, Albacete and Murcia, located in alencia* Council of the provinces Huelva, Sevilla, Córdoba; Jaén, Granada, Almería; Málaga, Cádiz, África norte and Canarias, located in

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Now it includes Galicia OAG Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León (oeste), Castilla y León (este), La Rioja, Aragón, Cataluña, Valencia, Baleares, Murcia, Castilla La Mancha, Extremadura, Andalucía ACOA Canarias y las ciudades autónomas de Ceuta y Melilla.

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* (Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de Espana Architecture in Spain Architecture-related professional associations Culture in Madrid 1931 in Spain Professional associations based in Spain