Architecte : du maître de lœuvre au disagneur The architectural profession was born from the gap created in the sixteenth century between the designer and the contractor who until then were one: the master of the work. Louis XIV was accentuated by creating lAcadémie darchitecture and Convention et le Directoire by creating lAcadémie des beaux arts. During this evolution professional bodies have favored an alliance with the political rather than the professional world power: over time architects have abandoned some of which normally clear from their jurisdiction to contractors engineers the offices of study not to be reduced in some cases as providing the only drawing of the building permit. This book traces the long decline through examples