Architecture as a profession is changing. Without delving into the causes (some of them have been published more than enough by different media) the context created by the economic situation and a unsustainable model of urban growth demand the appearance of new ideas and the evolution of new professional fields undiscovered yet by architecture.

We live at the same time in a post-digital world (Hugo Pardo, 2008) in which digital tools like the Internet and social media are perfectly integrated into people’s way of life. Although they are transforming the work world gently, they are still few professional initiatives which take into account those tools from the beginning.

accesit is certainly a good example of the integration between new initiative and the post-digital era. What started with the idea of disseminate those architectural designs without media coverage, it is becoming step by step a digital platform specialized in the disseminating, following and publishing news of interest related to the competitions in architecture and related disciplines.

Exclusively using the Internet as a dissemination media and linking content to social media like facebook and twitter among others, has allowed the rapid growth of accesit to 67,000 readers of digital magazine, 4,800 followers on the social media and an average of 62,500 pages visited on the website per month.

Created and driven by a young group of Spanish architects, accesit is a good example of how an innovative idea becomes reality, opening new horizons to the professional development of architecture.

You can find more information on http://accesit.org