The Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE), is the higher council of Architects Associations in Spain, and is the only established professional body of Spanish architects, located in the Paseo de la Castellana, Madrid.
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 (Spanish; Castilian: Cortes Constituyentes) on November 4, 1931.
The CSCAE includes 17 regional councils today, originally it had the following six regional councils:
Now it includes Galicia [COAG], Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León (oeste), Castilla y León (este), La Rioja, Aragón, Cataluña, Valencia, Baleares, Murcia, Castilla La Mancha, Extremadura, Andalucía [CACOA], Canarias y las ciudades autónomas de Ceuta y Melilla.