Yolanda Muñoz-Lozano - “Beaux-Arts tradition in Latin American

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Yolanda Muñoz Lozano, Ana Marianela Rochas-Porraz
Society of Architectural Historians, 2023 Apr 14

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Muñoz Lozano, Y., & Rochas-Porraz, A. M. (2023). “Beaux-Arts tradition in Latin American architecture schools: the cases of Émile Jéquier in Chile and Paul Dubois in Mexico (1889-1929)” . Society of Architectural Historians.

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Muñoz Lozano, Yolanda, and Ana Marianela Rochas-Porraz. “‘Beaux-Arts Tradition in Latin American Architecture Schools: the Cases of Émile Jéquier in Chile and Paul Dubois in Mexico (1889-1929)’ .” Society of Architectural Historians, 2023.

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Muñoz Lozano, Yolanda, and Ana Marianela Rochas-Porraz. “Beaux-Arts Tradition in Latin American Architecture Schools: the Cases of Émile Jéquier in Chile and Paul Dubois in Mexico (1889-1929)” . Society of Architectural Historians, 2023.

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@conference{mu2023a,
  title = {“Beaux-Arts tradition in Latin American architecture schools: the cases of Émile Jéquier in Chile and Paul Dubois in Mexico (1889-1929)” },
  year = {2023},
  month = apr,
  day = {14},
  organization = {Society of Architectural Historians},
  author = {Muñoz Lozano, Yolanda and Rochas-Porraz, Ana Marianela},
  month_numeric = {4}
}

French architects who arrived - in abundance - in Latin America during the nineteenth century were preceded by the great prestige of Paris’ École des Beaux-Arts and its famous section d’architecture. As their influence in Latin American cities is increasingly appreciated, we are also deepening our knowledge on their academic paths, and learning that some of them did not study at the world-famous École. While they did study in France, some did so in another school, not as well known and with innovative ideas for that time: the École Spéciale d’Architecture.

Through a comparative study, this article proposes a revision of the academic trajectories of both Émile Jéquier and Paul Adolphe Dubois. Relying on archival and documental resources in Paris, Mexico City and Santiago de Chile, as well as on unpublished family documents, our analysis cross-fertilizes notions of cultural and architectural transfer to better understand the role of the Beaux-Arts teaching tradition in the dissemination of architectural knowledge in Latin America.