#  Antoine Picon 

G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Graduate School of Design

Director of Doctoral Programs, Graduate School of Design

 

 

 



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 An engineer, architect, and historian, Antoine Picon is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is a member of the French Academy of Technology and the French Academy of Architecture. He works on the history of the relations between the built environment and technologies, with a special accent put on the imaginary and utopian dimensions. He has published extensively on this subject. He is amongst others the author of *French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment* (1992), *Claude Perrault* (1988), *L'Invention de l'ingénieur moderne* (1992), *La Ville territoire des cyborgs* (1998), *Les Saint-Simoniens* (2002), *Digital Culture in Architecture* (2010), *Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity* (2013), *Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence* (2015), *The Materiality of Architecture* (2021), and *Natures Urbaines: Une Histoire Technique et Sociale, 1600-2030* (2024).



 

 

 





 

 

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