Joseph Uchard
Main facade of the project for a "cathedral church". Prix de Rome 1838.
pencils and ink

...Architecture has never been drawn with such perfection and beauty. The results were so astonishing that they deformed architectural practice. The teachers were concerned that the students were only interested in the graphics, in the beauty of the plan drawing, to the detriment of the spaces and the structural logic...
In any case, the system helped to develop architectural sense. Among the prize-winners are practically all the important names in 19th century French architecture