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38 closely corresponds to the artistic currents of its time, dialogues with them, proposes and integrates with them. Vic's Atlàntida Theatre would be a good example: an architecture that uses exactly the same colours present in the paintings on the inside the very same city's cathedral, which were painted by Josep Maria Sert (the uncle of the architect Josep Lluís Sert): art lending resources to architecture so that the latter can integrate into the existing fabric like it had always been a part of it.. In another order of things styles like Catalan Modernisme represent a perfect synthesis of the art/architecture or beauty/function binomial in almost all its manifestations: many examples are not only still standing, but are used for their original function today. And has the economic recession affected this creative components? Now- adays is there a more austere kind of architecture? Obviously the economic part plays an important role in how buildings are designed now. This is a sector that has been hit hard by the reces- sion and the growth forecast is low. Nevertheless, I think it important to underline the creative value of architecture. We have learned from the years of recession and we have taken up the tools that should allow us to develop a better background for the fu- ture, so that we don't end up with a precarious situations that is not looking to quality. Architects as a collective have been considering the need for a significant change in the legal framework of our activity for a while, both in economic and social terms, as well in territorial and urban transformation. Thus, the approval of the draft Architecture Bill last summer by the Generalitat was a rather good piece of news: a draft Bill that the Archi- tects' College has had a large hand in. So, do we have a paradigm change before us? We are at a moment of re-definition. Many offices have altered their work and have orientated their business vision towards other business outlets. Before I was saying that our work involved problem resolution and it is exactly this capacity to analyse conflicts, plan and manage that allows us access to other professions. We trust, then, that when the draft Bill is approved in Parliament that it will respond to the needs of society in general, architecture and both present and future architects. The initiative needs to be a tool that can help us to improve knowledge and the social perception of architecture, architects' work so as to build, between us all, a better country.█ Document del Arxiu Històric del COAC/Documento original del Archivo Histórico del COAC/ Original document from the CAC's historic archive. GATCPAC (Grup d'Arquitectes i Tècnics Catalans per al Progrés de l'Arquitectura Contemporània) fou un moviment arquitectònic desenvolupat a Catalunya als anys 1930/GATCPAC (Grupo de Arquitectos y Técnicos Catalanes para el Progreso de la Arquitectura Contemporánea) fue un movimiento arquitectóni- co desarrollado en Cataluña en torno a 1930/GATPAC (Group of Architects and Catalan Technics for the Progress in Contempo- rary Architecture)was an archi- tectural movement developed in Catalonia by 1930.