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The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory. 2017, 2, p. 41-52

City Planning and Architectural Education in the Establishment of the Academies in 18th-Century Spain

Kashima, Akihiro

Saitama University

英語

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2017-09

Theme I : Design Theories and Ideas in Europe

This article looks back at the unclear history of city planning education in Spain and examines its relationship with the educational history of architects. Spain is a country that has developed the most urban planning experts including hundreds of town construction cases of colonial towns in the history of city planning since the Age of Exploration. Today, city planning and/ or urban design education in Spain is part of the architectural education, which is generally incorporated in the superior technical school of architecture in technical university or general universities. City planning experts have historically been equal to military engineers or architects, but it is quite unclear how the education of city planning was started and developed. This paper organizes the basic history of city planning education in 18th-century Spain especially focusing on one of the important academies of related fields, the Royal Military Academy of Mathematics of Barcelona (La Real Academia Militar de Matemáticas en Barcelona) which produced many military engineers and was responsible for the education of city fortification also. The paper tells that the educational content of military academy such as above was also linked to urban space improvement what would be civil town planning. The case study of the Royal Military Academy of Mathematics of Barcelona, observing the composition of the academy, its curriculum, instructors’ backgrounds, students’ notes, and so on, tells us that mathematics and geometry were deeply linked with military engineering and architecture. The education of mathematics, especially of geometry, was a basic knowledge to create reasonable and well-ordered construction of fortifications for engineers. The engineers related to the Academy played an important role on the fortification design of not only the Spanish colonial towns but also some important fortification projects of the towns in Spain. Moreover, as those engineers were also involved in urban public space development, it is obvious that the education on mathematics and geometry for engineers in the military academy played an important role on the development of not only military urban and architectural projects but also civil planning projects.

10.18910/90896

90896

City Planning and Architectural Education in the Establishment of the Academies in 18th-Century Spain

Kashima, Akihiro

Saitama University

英語

2017-09

The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory

2

41

52

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/90896

10.18910/90896

https://doi.org/10.18910/90896