Abstract

PEKAREK, Juan Pablo. Ingenieros, entre arquitectos y empresarios. Constructeurs de la École Centrale de París en Buenos Aires, 1890-1920. AyP contin. [online]. 2022, vol.9, n.17, pp.3-3. ISSN 2362-6089.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.35305/23626097v9i17.377.

The role of the French tradition in the education of architects in Argentina in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century is studied mainly from the perspective of the Beaux-Arts system and its successive attempts to separate from engineering at both the academic and professional levels. This work acknowledges that in France itself there were different approaches to architecture which were proposed by different schools, and it leads to focus on the culture of civil engineers from the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris. It seeks to examine the school experience of an Argentinian centralien, Carlos Agote (1866-1950), and his career in Buenos Aires which was linked to a network of former students on both sides of the Atlantic. Specialized as a constructeur, Agote positioned himself at the crossroads of different savoirs and savoir-faireenabling rich collaborations from diverse actors: Beaux-Arts architects, builders, entrepreneurs, manufacturers. Following the methods and concepts of the history of techniques, the proposal is to study this interaction through the archives of the École Centrale as well as business archives.

Keywords : architecture education; École Centrale de Paris; history of techniques.

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