Notes on Utopia, the City, and Architecture

Antoine Picon is G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Director of Research at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He works on the intersections between architectural and urban space, technology, and culture. His books include French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (Éditions Parenthèses, 1988; Cambridge University Press, 1991), Claude Perrault, 1613–1688, ou la curiosité d'un classique (Picard, 1988), L'invention de l'ingénieur moderne: L'École des ponts et chaussées, 1747–1851 (Presses de l'École nationale des ponts et chaussées, 1992), La ville territoire des cyborgs (Les Éditions de l'Imprimeur, 1997), Les saint-simoniens: Raison, imaginaire et utopie (Belin, 2002), Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Professions (Birkhäuser, 2010), Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity (Wiley, 2013), and Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence (Wiley, 2015).