The word "Deontology" means study of the obligations.

In the sector of the Building the correct definition of the functions and obligations of the diverse agents that intervene is especially important because the number of them is big and because they usually act with functional autonomy, integrated in different organizations or companies, with different interests, which must be organized possibly for the achievement of every building(edifice). The architect has to, the first obligation, know like the scope and the consistency of its own specific obligations.

The architect's qualifications is one of those who, in the Spanish juridical arranging, are protected especially and open the possibility of the exercise, in exclusivity, of a few functions of high social responsibility. The society supposes and has a right to trust that the technical - cultural array of the alumnus in architecture guarantees all the quality requisites that the buildings(edifices) need, bearing in mind that immense most of the persons develop in them good part of your life.

The protection of the activity edilicia on the part of the administrations bears an abundant normative regulation. So abundant that it becomes overwhelming and difficult to dominate. And nevertheless any of the most important obligations of the architects cannot become shut up in normative formulations. The society depends in many cases on the personal ethics of the architects.

The architect must know, also, the obligations of the rest of agents of the Building. To know what is up to him to do everyone is an immediate need for the architect, who occupies a position central and qualified inside this framework of organisms, companies and professionals that it ends up by producing a building(edifice), a quarter, a city and finally the scenery humanized (or dehumanized).