Implementing excellence in architectural and planning interventions in urban and rural areas, ensuring they are planned and carried out with respect for the cultural and natural heritage.

Looking more closely at traditional practices will enable us to reference the future with greater knowledge (...) as a means of job creation, and for the promotion of tourism and boosting the national economy.

Stimulating a sense of belonging, identity and responsibility in individuals in relation to the community and the territory.

To protect and enhance the heritage and the cultural landscapes is to perpetuate and transmit to the future the message and knowledge of the past (...)

(...) the creation and implementation of a public policy on architecture and landscape is a mission for Portugal.