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A former student. Unknown complexities in the French education of Chilean architect Émile Jéquier

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022): Diciembre
https://doi.org/10.5354/2810-6245.2022.69317

Abstract

French architects who arrived in Latin America during the 19th century were preceded by the great prestige of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and its famous architecture section. It was common to generalise their origin and academic background, believing that everyone who had studied in France had done so at the world-famous École. However, this was not always the case. There is a considerable group of architects whose studies were different. This is the case of Émile Jéquier, a Chilean-French architect born in 1866, who studied first at the École Spéciale and then at the École des Beaux-Arts. This article analyses in depth Émile Jéquier's French training -diverse and yet unknown- in order to better understand its complexities and thus establish the impact that this period had on his subsequent development as an architect and teacher, in Santiago de Chile and at the Catholic University, respectively. This analysis is carried out in the light of the concepts of circulation of models and cultural transfer in architecture and its teaching. The paper has been carried out by studying primary and secondary sources in archives and libraries in Paris and Santiago de Chile, as well as the examination of unpublished family documents.

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Architecture, Beaux-Arts, teaching, transfer.

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Muñoz Lozano, Y. (2022). A former student. Unknown complexities in the French education of Chilean architect Émile Jéquier. Revista Historia Y Patrimonio, 1(1), 1–32. https://doi.org/10.5354/2810-6245.2022.69317
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Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo
Universidad de Chile
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