Sensibilidades arquitectónicas en la Confederación Argentina. La decoración para el chateaux del soberano moderno y la didáctica del orden arquitectónico para educar en el buen gusto. Concepción del Uruguay y Paraná, 1854 -1859

This article proposes a reading on how “good taste” was the basis to plan power spaces that would strengthen and legitimize the political project of the Argentine Confederation under the presidency of Justo Jose de Urquiza. It is examined the way in which Urquiza developed certain architectural sensibility to plan his space, therefore employing Pietro Fossati, who through the beaux-arts criteria transformed the house of Urquiza into the place of a modern sovereign. As for the design of the capital city, Santiago Danucio built urban facades to demonstrate the authority of the government. Thus, generating certain good taste principals, through the use of classical antiquity elements and rules.