Do I need an architect or a geometra? What is the difference?

These are the questions my clients keep asking....let’s try to provide a simple, concise answer:

You can become a geometra at the age of 18, at the end of secondary school, with no higher qualification -

to become an architect you need to have attended University, after secondary school, for at least 5 years.

To give a better explanation I could use a simile in the ambit of medicine: if the architect is a doctor, the geometra is a nurse.

In most cases the “wounded” houses we wish to restore require the equivalent of open-heart surgery:

would you refer to a nurse for this kind of operation?

The architect makes architecture, the geometra doesn’t.