El levantamiento arquitectónico como dibujo de viaje. El ejemplo de los monumentos arquitectónicos de España y los croquis de levantamiento de Velázquez Bosco

Abstract

Architectural surveys can be understood as travel drawings prepared by an architect in order to study architecture measuring and depicting buildings. From this standpoint we shall analyze in this paper the survey drawings prepared for the publication “Monumentos Arquitectónicos de España”, a through 19th-century collection of lavish prints about the key buildings of Spanish architecture, and in particular the field notebooks stored in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando of Madrid and prepared by the architect and professor Ricardo Velázquez Bosco as preparatory sketches for “Monumentos”