ABSTRACT
This chapter is focused on the way in which urbanism was established in the Spanish Architecture Schools, and the relevance that the transnational networks of urbanism had in this process in their various materializations. This allowed, with different fortunes, to consolidate a form of teaching of the new discipline in force in the period that goes from 1914 to beyond Spanish Civil War.
By means of the analysis of the new subjects to which the professional competences of urban planning were entrusted within architectural studies, it is intended to demonstrate the role that the academic institution had in the consolidation of the new field of knowledge. The study is located in the interwar period, which in Spain was lived from neutrality before the First World War and the endemic political problems that made the country pass from a monarchy, which led to a military directory, to a democratic republic that raised great hopes but ended with a Civil War and a prolonged dictatorship as a result of the war.
The document is structured in an introduction on the processes of institutionalization of urbanism in the field of education, followed by the analysis of the contents of which the new subjects were endowed by the two professors who took charge of them in the respective schools, César Cort in the case of the School of Architecture of Madrid and Amadeo Llopart in that of Barcelona. The professional controversies raised and the lukewarm academic reaction to professional demands are shown.
