NO ES EL DIBUJO LO QUE CONSTITUYE ARQUITECTO»: DÉBATS SUR LA NATURE DE L'ARCHITECTURE DANS LES ACADÉMIES DE MADRID ET DE PARIS AU SIÈCLE DES LUMIÈRES/«No es el dibujo lo que constituye arquitecto»: debates sobre la naturaleza de la arquitectura en las academias de Madrid y Paris en el Siglo de las Luces/«No es el dibujo lo que constituye arquitecto»: Debates on the Nature of Architecture in Academies of Madrid and Paris during the Eighteenth Century

Madrid's Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, founded on the humanist principal of the role of drawing in uniting the three liberal arts, conferred on the latter a central role in the teaching of architecture. An overrating of mathematics as the heart of architectural education resulted in the absence of a clear consensus about proper method and pedagogy with regard to drawing. Resistance to architectural drawings associated with painters is comprehensible in the context of the Academy's efforts against the traditional baroque style and their determination to define and control the title of «architect». This situation partially explains why, despite the exposure of Spanish pensionnaires in Rome to French developments in architectural drawing, architectural competition drawings in Madrid resisted the pictorial tendencies being adopted in the rest of Europe.