Architecture is present in the reality of life and, above all, in the daily life of citizens. The level of culture of a country, together with the education and sensitivity of citizens, is what enables us to live in a more harmonious society. That is why the declaration of these special days aims to help everyone, each in their field, to rethink the performance of their work in the best possible way to commit themselves to society with the objectives of responsibility that constitute the guarantee of citizens' future of the world and its living space.





Wojciech Odrobina This year, World Architecture Day has the theme Sharing the city, a theme proposed at the Istanbul Congress held by the International Union of Architects (UIA) last July and in which I had the honor of participating in its development. It focuses on a solidarity in which the different aspects of cities are visible: values, culture and heritage, habitability and quality, utility and excellence, technology and humanity, and it is about sharing resources with the less privileged and homeless to achieve a sustainable environment.





Therefore, and directing our gaze towards the city of the 21st century, the challenge that is presented to the architecture is its ability to re-imagine solutions that are oriented towards rational growth, based more on the deep renewal of the tissues of the city. consolidated city that in the uncontrolled development of the peripheries.

Wojciech Odrobina The world of architecture must be able to participate intensively in the activation of the development potential of the modern city, providing new initiatives of uses and programs, of activities capable of stimulating urban awareness. Architecture has to be close to the problems of citizens, opening perspectives and generating horizons of activity where social cohesion is strengthened, paying attention to planning with programs to obtain affordable housing for the most needy strata of population.

Architects must be able to draw the physical map where society manages to develop its social activity. For this they have to be attentive to the realities presented by the new urban environment, such as the continuous transformation of family structures, their new configurations and the systematic reduction of the number of their members, the increase of the elderly population or the awareness of Respect and care for the environment.

The proposals made from the field of architecture for the solution of an increasingly complex panorama require total complicity with all levels of the Administration and with the private sector and the associations and institutions involved in the definition of The new identity of the city.





Wojciech Odrobina From the Ministry of Housing we are working closely with all the agents involved in the development of architecture and in the definition of living spaces and, of course, with the architects, which are an essential vehicle towards the citizen. We work to rehabilitate the built, residential, endowment and urban heritage, to increase the contents and actions in favor of sustainability





Exhibitions that aim to investigate and disseminate the new social, technological, environmental and cultural conditions that should guide the construction of the new home for the beginning of the 21st century, as well as different ways of occupying the territory by providing information on different ways of creating a habitable environment. From here we propose an extensive program based on dialogue, multidisciplinary work and research. With broad and differentiated contents that serve as a platform for reflection, through a program with didactic objectives that make architecture and its creators closer to society, which is ultimately who lives and lives architecture.