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The Figure of the Architect-Teacher in the Second Half of the 18th Century in Valencia

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Architectural Draughtsmanship (EGA 2016)

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The topic of the paper is to analyze the figure of the architect as a teacher in Valencia in the second half of the eighteenth century. We’ll start studying the “Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos” in Valencia and its connections with the “Academia de San Fernando” in Madrid, to delve the research about the architect’s teaching inside academy, focusing on academic training, requirements to the graduates, demands, and on the competence allocations at this time, emphasizing the figure of Antonio Gilabert, author of the most important works in Valencia during this period.

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    That is how José Enrique García Melero (1997) presents the role of the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, and of the academic artist in the academy. This description can be generalised to all the Spanish academies, taking the Madrid academy as reference.

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Vidal García, C., Sender Contell, M., Pérez de los Cobos Cassinello, M., Navarro Esteve, P. (2018). The Figure of the Architect-Teacher in the Second Half of the 18th Century in Valencia. In: Castaño Perea, E., Echeverria Valiente, E. (eds) Architectural Draughtsmanship. EGA 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58856-8_129

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