When the United Kingdom left the European Union on January 1, the country’s architects lost the blanket right to work across continental Europe. It appears as if an epoque in which British architects worked successfully at the heart of the continent—projects such David Chipperfield Architects’ renovation of the Neues Museum in Berlin and Zaha Hadid’s bravura design for the MAXXI, the contemporary art and architecture museum in Rome—was suddenly over. Now British architects are dependent on regulations within each nation to allow them to work in Europe.
Despite the intense negotiations that took place between officials in Brussels and London throughout 2020 that produced a trade deal, no specific agreement on the reciprocal recognition of all professional services, including architects, was reached, and individual countries have the right to treat UK qualifications as “rest of the world” qualifications.
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